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A deliciously diverse anthology of essays, stories, poems and graphic memoirs, exploring the deeply human act of kissing.
From Sioux Falls to Khartoum, from Kyoto to Darwin; from the panchayat forests to the Giant's Causeway; in taxis and at bus stops, in kitchens and sleigh beds, haystacks and airports people are kissing one another. The sublime kiss. The ambiguous kiss. The broken kiss. The kiss that changes a life. Far from the scripted passion of Hollywood, this uniquely human gesture carries within it the possibility for infinite shades of meaning and it does not stop for anything not war, revolution or natural disaster.
In The Kiss, authors like Nick Flynn, Kristen Radtke and Pico Iyer explore our quest to bridge the gulf between ourselves and others through this fleeting physical connection, and to uncover the depths contained in words like tenderness, passion and love.
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"The Kiss contains material by some excellent and well-known writers, many of them poets, including Nick Flynn, Mark Doty, Terrance Hayes, Téa Obreht and Andre Dubus III. Perhaps because of the supercut effect, I found myself most enjoying the pieces that actively worked to puncture the inflated romanticism of The Meaningful Kiss." --Kristen Roupenian, Times Literary Supplement
"The most moving entries involve no romance at all, but rather familial bonds, and loss, and how with a kiss we seek to demonstrate the depths of devotion or grief when words fail." --The New York Times
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"The most moving entries involve no romance at all, but rather familial bonds, and loss, and how with a kiss we seek to demonstrate the depths of devotion or grief when words fail." --The New York Times
Brian Turner is the author of the memoir My Life as a Foreign Country and the poetry collections Here, Bullet, and Phantom Noise. He directs the low-residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College.
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