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urn:uuid:1628a7f6-38e8-443f-8849-acbb2268b4e8 03 15 9781685710910 00 EB E107 10 01 01 The Tales 1 A01 Jessica Bozek <p><bold>Jessica Bozek</bold> is the author of <italic>The Bodyfeel Lexicon</italic> (Switchback Books, 2009) as well as several chapbooks, including <italic>How to See the Wind</italic>. She teaches classes on poetry, race, and arts activism at Boston University. She lives and runs in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p> 2 A24 Sina Queyras 01 eng 00 92 03 23 apocalypse 23 Fabulations 10 POE005010 23 dystopia 10 FIC028070 23 disaster 01 06 03 00 <p>Stitching together a post-apocalyptic history from the scraps of fairy tales, war memorials, hunting songs, and disparate scholarship, Jessica Bozek’s <italic>The Tales</italic> traces the violence that humans inflict upon one another. As the central narrative of the Lone Survivor becomes revealed through the mouths of various perspectives, Bozek investigates the language that victims and perpetrators alike use to make sense of (and attempt to forget) the aftermath of violence. From ordinary objects—family photographs, sweaters that unravel, old batteries, and lightbulbs—to the remnants of destroyed art and architecture, an annihilated nation is brought into reality, and the Lone Survivor’s story is simultaneously documented and invalidated, becoming “a memorial that will disintegrate over time, gray and fray as most of the dead did not have a chance to.”</p><p>This title is a second edition, released as part of punctum’s <ext-link xlink:href="https://punctumbooks.pubpub.org/pub/punctum-introduces-special-collections-les-figues/">Special Collections</ext-link> project.</p> Les Figues 01 punctum books 04 01 20230720 02 WORLD 06 15 9781685710903 06 15 9781685710910 WORLD 09 punctum books 20 01