[SQUELCH PROCEDURES]

MLA Chernoff

• Editorial: Gordon Hill Press
• Año: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781774220344
• Categoría: Letteratura
• Categoría: Poesia

In [ SQUELCH PROCEDURES ], MLA Chernoff contemplates the ways that trauma, poverty, and strict gender norms rupture the concept of childhood. The tension of multiple meanings in the word "squelch" acts as a guide to Chernoff's unique voice, which uses language to swaddle intrusive thoughts and mimic defense mechanisms such as avoidance, depersonalization, and derealization. [ SQUELCH PROCEDURES ] is an ambitious attempt to show how healing and regression are often indistinguishable, while the past is always predisposed to happen more than once: first as tragedy, then as farce.