{"product_id":"beyond-touch-sites-an-anthology-of-the-tangible-9781777085964","title":"Beyond Touch Sites: An Anthology of the Tangible","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom the moment we leave the warm seas of our mothers' bellies to join the world of Alone, tactility defines the contours of our being.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTouch is a temporal event that unfolds in unexpected and often gripping ways in the stories, poems, essays and hybrid experimental and performative scripts collected here. It is the oldest of our senses. It is also, as the explorations in \u003cem\u003eBeyond Touch Sites\u003c\/em\u003e reveal, one of the most complex and intimate conduits of human experience and communication. All-enveloping as our skin, our haptic sense can localize, lightning-quick, to specific memory sites. Touch can heal and harm, comfort and confront, catalyzing the other senses and carrying us to distant places. Touch moves us.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe modalities of touch addressed by the authors in this collection range across a spectrum of forms of contact: reparative, violent, retributive, gustatory, familial, ritual and ceremonial. With acute sensibility, Wendy McGrath has harnessed the many touch sites proposed by the contributors and made this volume the ultimate tactile map, where multi-genre narratives expand and contract, sit in haptic dialogue next to each other, in the hopes of touching their audience with this collection's beating heart.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Beyond Touch Sites \u003cem\u003etakes us on migrations both physical and imaginative. The journeys here transport and transform\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e-- \u003cem\u003eChristine Wiesenthal, PhD. Professor Emeritus, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Laberinto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781777085964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 10.00w x 0.79d","brand":"Wendy McGrath","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52715376410805,"sku":"9781777085964","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/beyond-touch-sites-an-anthology-of-the-tangible-9781777085964","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}