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What the Willow Said As It Fell /

"This book-length poem by the current Poet Laureate of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Andrea Scarpino, asks the reader to sit with and inside the body's many losses, to grow comfortable and restless in its vagaries, and to acknowledge the myriad ways the body shapes and informs our lives...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Scarpino, Andrea (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"This book-length poem by the current Poet Laureate of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Andrea Scarpino, asks the reader to sit with and inside the body's many losses, to grow comfortable and restless in its vagaries, and to acknowledge the myriad ways the body shapes and informs our lives. Incorporating found poetry, including from her own medical records, and the ash and willow tree as mythological figures, Scarpino writes with lyric intensity from a place of resistance and questioning as she tries to describe, understand, and record chronic pain as a growing epidemic"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781597095853