Detailing trauma : a poetic anatomy / Arianne Zwartjes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zwartjes, Arianne.

Series:

Sightline books.

Sightline books : the Iowa series in literary nonfiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (121 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a series of linked lyric essays, Detailing Trauma explores in vivid, sometimes graphic detail the many types of wounds from which the human body and spirit may suffer-and heal. Mapping the diseases and injuries that can afflict the body, the author asks how we can continue to live and love in the face of the great potential for suffering and loss. She names each section of the book for body parts or processes, then juxtaposes the functions and failures of human anatomy with experiences in her own life and those of people she knows and loves, meticulous

Contents:

Contents; *body; The Anatomy of Trust or Breaking; *rupture; If Language Fails Us, or Body; *duration; This Suturing of Wounds or Words; *consolation; Cicatrice & Sclerosis: On Hardening; *impoverishment; The Pathology of Loss & Longing; *attempt; A Cardiovascular Study in Hope; Acknowledgments; Notes; Works Cited

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781609381431

1609381432

OCLC:

808867306