Neighbor by Rachel Levitsky Selima Hill ‘the couplet’ a troubadourian coupling

‘the couplet’ a troubadourian coupling of lovers and the knife fight rhythms of iambic pentameter

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"An overt engagement with history or social issues is almost totally absent from their work - perhaps because of an instinctive fear that the weight of history may turn out to be too much to bear and may squash their own creativity

Neighbor by Rachel Levitsky Selima Hill ‘the couplet’ a troubadourian couplingNeighbors mutable, shifty narrator alternately reifies and attempts to refuse the constricting, separating, culture load bearing wall between lovers and neighbors. As antagonisms and intimacies converge, Levitsky troubles the divisions within urban space, and between spatial and ethical frames: I live on a street where people turn (on) each other into a theory. This second edition, printed a decade after Neighbors original publication, features an