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The Nerves

Writer
Lena Suksi
Editor
Tamara Faith Berger
Price
$17.00
Date
2020
Publisher
Metatron Press
Format
Artists' Books
ISBN
9781988355207
Size
12 × 17 cm
Length
104 pp
Genre
Fiction, Erotica, LGBTQ2S+
Description

“Then somebody in their whole being, beyond touch, explodes me, a heightening of the senses that sugar, drugs, and cold waterfalls can’t match. That maybe only fear can match. But I do want to believe we can protect each other”.

The Nerves subverts the literary approach to sexuality by treating the erotic not as a site of anxiety but of reverie. Set in an imaginary world where our sense memories tell us who we are, Lee Suksi’s literary debut is psychedelic, attentive, cinematic and hot. Writing toward sensitivity and ecstasy, exploring touch as healing abandon, The Nerves is charged with desire, devotion, and creative fantasy. Through a series of joyful encounters, Suksi reminds us that pleasure can be abundant, nuanced and that it can heal. Engaging in a queer erotics of language, Suksi’s debut is a bundle of wet atmospheres, speaking to faith in touch.

  1. the nerves
 

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