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Beyond Touch, by Arja Salafranca

Beyond Touch, by Arja Salafranca

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Arja Salafranca's new poetry collection offers portraits of people on trains in England, as well as recounting the experience of being a stranger in Spain, where she was born. She treads warily on the icy streets of London, but returns years later to have a life-changing epiphany while rowing on the Thames. Her incisive, photographic gaze penetrates the lives of people, from Indonesian woman in the sea to a chid begging in Johannesburg. Yet the poetry is also personal, as it traces the slow but inevitable unwinding of a relationship. And then there's an erotic intimacy, where love goes beyond touch.

Author Arja Salafranca

Title Beyond Touch

Published by Modjadji Books and Dye Hard Press

79pp

ISBN 9781920590543

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Beyond Touch, by Arja Salafranca

Another Day, a poem from Beyond Touch, perfectly describes the reality of dating as an adult. The effort of meeting someone new, getting to know them, the many inquiries and conversations that follow, just to have to do it all over again with someone else, is ageless even though it was published in 2015 and was undoubtedly written before then.

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