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Side effects may include strangers /

"To be ill is to be a body bursting with strangers. A curiosity. A narrative to interpret. Dominik Parisien's debut collection is a poignant celebration of the complicated lived experience of disability, a challenge to the societal gaze, and a bold reconfiguration of the language of pain....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parisien, Dominik (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020.
Colección:Hugh MacLennan poetry series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • Pain by any other name
  • Let us for a moment call this pain by other words
  • It is not this
  • Bilingual pathways
  • It is not this (II)
  • (B)rain weather
  • Picture book
  • It is not this?
  • To the sadists & the masochists
  • With apologies to those with congenital analgesia
  • Un docteur anglophone traduit les inquiétudes de son patient avec Google / An English-speaking doctor translates the concerns of his patient with Google
  • It is this
  • Strange(r) bodies
  • The body calls for guests
  • Calling a body a body
  • To a bi body
  • Writing after targeted assault
  • The wall spelled love
  • Penny
  • Ableist analysis
  • Inside story
  • What you learn, drowning
  • After deciding not to die by suicide, you should be thinking
  • Side effects may include strangers
  • Other body prayer
  • After convulsing in public
  • Metamorphosis
  • To a chronically pained body
  • My partner makes of me a poem
  • Can we call this an aubade
  • A portrait of the monster as an artist
  • A mask is not a face
  • Niece with a peach following four minutes of Planet Earth
  • Birthday wish
  • I am learning to forget
  • Concussion
  • Head in a jury
  • Arachnoid cyst
  • MRI, or the new art of anthropomancy
  • Holiday tragedy
  • Post-convulsive recovery
  • Becoming
  • (De)generation
  • Card game with disabled friends
  • To an aged body
  • Afternoon with grandparents
  • The Eganville healer's compound
  • Upkeep
  • Patient
  • Watch for that horizon
  • Degeneration
  • Words like sand bags
  • I hear you in the broken things
  • You came to say goodbye again
  • Relic
  • A new home
  • Old young man
  • The old man in his room, always in the nude
  • Hospital time
  • Hospital visit
  • To a dying friend
  • Notes and Acknowledgments