ALSACE-LORRAINE, by Fanny Howe

Telephone Books, 1982, First edition, Unpaginated, 8 1/2" X 11", Stapled wraps

Very good with some handling and toning (see photos)

The territory of Alsace-Lorraine, on the French & German borderlands, has been subject to repeated conflict, divided historical allegiance and alignment, a frontline of both World Wars. It functions, for Howe, as one symbol among many of what it means to dwell in a site or state of contradiction—what it means to hold space amidst the tumult of world, matter, spirit, and believe that conflict might produce a new set of possibilities for a future ahead.    -Mimeodrome