A Protocol for Touch

by Constance Merritt

"Constance Merritt is a poet to defeat categories, to oppose 'the tyranny of names' with a poetry that sets its own terms of encounter, its 'protocols of touch'--tender and austere, formal and intimate at once. Hers is a voice with many musics, sufficiently rich, nuanced and various to express, maintain poise and wrest meaning from the powerful cross-currents in which the heart is torn. I have seldom seen intelligence equal to such a scorching...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574410830
• ISBN13: 9781574410839
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: University of North Texas Press
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"