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As a scholar of poetry and culture working across media and historical periods (antiquity, modernity, and the in-between), I try to understand why we so often confront the world by interrupting our relation to it.
TURNING AWAY: THE POETICS OF AN ANCIENT GESTURE
“Composed with an electric blend of writerly elegance and moral urgency, this erudite book compels its readers to keep our eyes fixed on its pages.”
— Marta Figlerowicz, Yale University, author of Spaces of Feeling: Affect and Awareness in Modernist Literature