Devastation

by Melissa Buzzeo

The Devastation, a performance novel or poem, is based on the fallibility of a single a sea-wreck in language, the lovers on the floor of the sea, a sea of poetry, current, currency, connection--the world. How do we value "impoverished speech" or try to find abundance in impoverishment? A narrative that stems from "an image that is never exhausted" whose affect pervades the function of the whole, The Devastation is a lyric exploration of relation and community.

Genres: Poetry

88 pages, Paperback

First published October 7, 2014

Reviews

[emma 🤦😓]

Miss Buzzeo, I want u to know that by chance, ur book appeared at a club’s zine making night, and I read most of it while trying to make a cut up poem out of your words. I have to say that even though we didn’t really understand it, The Devastation left a great impact on my table (to whom I read out loud various snippets of your work) and myself.