Buch, Englisch, 96 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 164 g
Reihe: Wisconsin Poetry Series
Buch, Englisch, 96 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 164 g
Reihe: Wisconsin Poetry Series
ISBN: 978-0-299-34174-9
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
The poems in Radium Girl hold dual citizenship in the land of the sick and the kingdom of the well. The point where illusion ends and reality begins is never clear, as Celeste Lipkes evokes saints, magicians, scientists, and caregivers in the process of surviving both medical illness and medical training. Slippery metaphors of rabbits in hats, doves in cages, and elaborate escapes explore the inhabitation of a female body as a kind of powerful and violent performance—where the magician’s trick of cutting a woman in half is never as far away as we’d like.
With humor (“When the doctor says, ‘We found something,’ / I don’t say: ‘no shit’ or ‘oh thank God, / I’ve been looking for that sweater everywhere,’”) and heartbreak (“Every evening I count the dwindling brass coins / of my patient’s platelets while his wife ices / cups of ginger ale he will never drink”), Lipkes reminds us what it means to feel human, to feel afraid, to feel hopeful, to feel.
I am the magician, even,
some nights alone,
finding inside the darkness
a small, trembling thing
I won’t acknowledge as my own.
This is someone else’s rabbit,
I say, and the silence nods back.
—Excerpt from “Rabbit”
Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
Rabbit
sonnet
mel·lif·er·ous
Moon Face
Anatomy Lab
Eve Miscarries
Dove
ne·pen·thes
Instructions for My Lover
La Brea Tar Pits
cousin
A Kite Addresses Benjamin Franklin
Hemicorporectomy
a pair of impossible objects
cam·pa·nol·o·gy
Hospital through a Teleidoscope
Snail
Escape
infusion room praise song
al·bes·cent
two small fish
Alphekka
Acknowledgments
Notes
