Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead
Author: Singer, Hayley
ISBN: 9780645536997
Publisher: Black Inc
Year first published: 03 Jan 2023
Pages: 170
Format: Paperback / softback
i>h3>Abandon Every Hope/i> mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?i>/h3>/i>BR>BR>i>Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats into infinity. Has a nasty sting of corpses. What was it Dante wrote?br>/i>br>i>Abandon Every Hope/i> is a lament, an elegy, a deranged encyclopedia, and a diary of anxiety. How can anyone document the vastness of violence against animals in a bloated industrial age?br>br>Across a series of essays, Hayley Singer investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse to map the contours of a world cut to pieces by organised and profitable death. A compelling debut in poetic prose, Singer asks how we may write the life of the dead; the smell of an egg factory; of multispecies PTSD; of planetary harm and self-harm- of the horror we make on earth. Where does the slaughterhouse begin and how can it end?br>br>"Singer writes with a magnificent intensity, moving between different registers in order to bear witness to the pain and suffering of the slaughterhouse." Stephanie King, Readingsbr>br>"i>Abandon Every Hope/i> takes the form of a thanatography - an attempt to write death - which Hayley Singer describes as having a "nearness to biography." Fiona Wright, i>The Saturday Paper/i>br>br>"A quietly ambitious book about suffering." Ben Brooker, i>Australian Book Review/i>br>br>"Singer's skill likes in controlling the level of discomfort in the essays to the point where you feel it as a reader but don't put the book down for a breath of fresh air or a long stare out the window, reflecting on your own part in all this." Jasper Linde, i>The Canberra Times/i>br>br>"Experimental and jostling in its use of poetic, lyric, academic and reflective writing styles, this book grapples with the industrial meat complex." -Stella Prize Judges comments
ISBN: 9780645536997
Publisher: Black Inc
Year first published: 03 Jan 2023
Pages: 170
Format: Paperback / softback
i>h3>Abandon Every Hope/i> mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?i>/h3>/i>BR>BR>i>Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats into infinity. Has a nasty sting of corpses. What was it Dante wrote?br>/i>br>i>Abandon Every Hope/i> is a lament, an elegy, a deranged encyclopedia, and a diary of anxiety. How can anyone document the vastness of violence against animals in a bloated industrial age?br>br>Across a series of essays, Hayley Singer investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse to map the contours of a world cut to pieces by organised and profitable death. A compelling debut in poetic prose, Singer asks how we may write the life of the dead; the smell of an egg factory; of multispecies PTSD; of planetary harm and self-harm- of the horror we make on earth. Where does the slaughterhouse begin and how can it end?br>br>"Singer writes with a magnificent intensity, moving between different registers in order to bear witness to the pain and suffering of the slaughterhouse." Stephanie King, Readingsbr>br>"i>Abandon Every Hope/i> takes the form of a thanatography - an attempt to write death - which Hayley Singer describes as having a "nearness to biography." Fiona Wright, i>The Saturday Paper/i>br>br>"A quietly ambitious book about suffering." Ben Brooker, i>Australian Book Review/i>br>br>"Singer's skill likes in controlling the level of discomfort in the essays to the point where you feel it as a reader but don't put the book down for a breath of fresh air or a long stare out the window, reflecting on your own part in all this." Jasper Linde, i>The Canberra Times/i>br>br>"Experimental and jostling in its use of poetic, lyric, academic and reflective writing styles, this book grapples with the industrial meat complex." -Stella Prize Judges comments
