Les Portes Dana Mattioli Purported to enhance empathy

Purported to enhance empathy

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Les Portes Dana Mattioli Purported to enhance empathyBy: Meredith Nnoka Published by Autumn House Press, 2026 04 28 Les Portes traces how harm against women and femmes takes root, recurs, and reshapes itself across generations. Unfolding in three movements Le Dbut, Le Pass, and Le Prsent all of which rupture conventional domestic abuse narratives, and drawing heavily from zuihitsu, ekphrasis, erasure, and found forms to mirror the fractured experience of living through and after harm, these poems serve