Where things touch : a meditation on beauty / Bahar Orang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orang, Bahar, 1992- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Essais (Toronto, Ont.) ; no. 10.

Essais series ; no 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Canadian essays.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

111 pages ; 19 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Book*hug Press, [2020]

Summary:

""To devote oneself to the study of beauty is to offer footnotes to the universe for all the places and all the moments that one observes beauty. I can no longer grab beauty by her wrists and demand articulation or meaning. I can only take account of where things touch." Part lyric essay, part prose poetry, Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty grapples with the manifold meanings and possibilities of beauty. Drawing on her experiences as a physician-in-training, Orang considers clinical encounters and how they relate to the concept and very idea of beauty. Such considerations lead her to questions about intimacy, queerness, home, memory, love, and other aspects of human experience. Throughout, beauty is ultimately imagined as something inextricably tied to care: the care of lovers, of patients, of art and literature, and the various non-human worlds that surround us. Eloquent and meditative in its approach, beauty, here, beyond base expectations of frivolity and superficiality, is conceived of as a thing to recover. Where Things Touch is an exploration of an essential human pleasure, a necessary freedom by which to challenge what we know of ourselves and the world we inhabit."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

A poetically influenced essay.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Orang, Bahar, 1992- Where things touch.

ISBN:

9781771665698

1771665696

OCLC:

1124305500

Publisher Number:

99985894428