β Scribed by Elaine Kahn
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
βThis book takes me right back to the Carnage Yearsβyours, tooβsacrificed to love. If only I, you, had possessed Elaine Kahnβs wisdom and wit. These poems are lacerating, coy, bloody, and so true I wanted to memorize lines from them.β βRachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room and The Flamethrowers
Romance or The End takes up the tools of romantic narrative in order to perform the rupture between self and story that occurs at the onset of trauma. Using known and pathologized literary arcs, Elaine Kahn unspools the fundamental instability of truth, love, and language to create an experiential portrait of narrativeβs power to both disfigure and restore. ROMANCE or THE END
This is a book about love.
And it is a book about lies.
Love can be a lie, but it is also always true.
This is a book about truth.
This is a book about story.
There is no such thing as a true story and so there are no stories in this book.
Without a story, there is separation.
This is a book about separation.
Everything is a story. Even the truth.
There is nothing truer in this world than the lie of love.
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