Behind the Tree Backs Jean Day Eliot and Delmore Schwartz

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Behind the Tree Backs Jean Day Eliot and Delmore SchwartzIman Mohammed Translated by Jennifer Hayashida Behind the Tree Backs investigates a poetics of remembrance through senses that hover just below and just above the skin. The text excavates war and displacement through a constellation of animate memories carved out of deep pleasure as well as brutality, the ancient and the institutional, the everyday and the geopolitical. The book insists on a poetics that recall through vibrating auratic fields,