Abandon Every Hope

<h3><em>Abandon Every Hope</em> mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death to ultimately ask: where does this horror begin and how can it end?</h3><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness of hell on earth? Hell I imagine has a smell that bloats into infinity. Has a nasty sting of corpses. What was it Dante wrote?</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Abandon Every Hope</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> is a lament an elegy a deranged encyclopedia and a diary of anxiety. How can anyone document the vastness of violence against animals in a bloated industrial age?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Across a series of essays Hayley Singer investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse to map the contours of a world cut to pieces by organised and profitable death. A compelling debut in poetic prose Singer asks how we may write the life of the dead; the smell of an egg factory; of multispecies PTSD; of planetary harm and self-harm: of the horror we make on earth. Where does the slaughterhouse begin and how can it end?</span></p><p><br></p>