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Article: Bright Existence.
- Article from:
- The Antioch Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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As explained in the note from Brenda Hillman that prefaces Death Tractates, the writing of this, her fourth book, occurred as "an interruption," necessitated by the unexpected death of a friend and mentor, to the process of writing the poems of Bright Existence, Hillman's fifth book.
When the books are read consecutively, the poems of Death Tractates make themselves felt, as an absence, or as an absent-but-felt presence, in the second book. (What a rich critical opportunity for the Lacanian: the poems in both books speak both overtly and inadvertently of erasures, of borders, of writing and other metaphors for loss.) These books are separate in the way that twins ...
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