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Sick witch / Crystal Hurdle.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.H869 S53 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hurdle, Crystal, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canadian poetry--21st century.
- Canadian poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 108 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver, B.C., Canada : Ronsdale Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "In this collection of poems, the Sick Witch lures the narrator through a series of diagnosed and undiagnosable illnesses. The poems explore connections between physical and mental illnesses. Some of the illnesses explored include allergies, somnambulism, retinal detachment, schizophrenia, avian flu and ALS."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I. Sequestration of the Sick
- Diagnosis: Cat Scratch Fever?
- Fever Dream: Sick in China
- Sick at Home
- Letter: Oct. 21
- Reading while Sick
- Feet
- Sjogren's Syndrome
- Inner Eye
- Going, Going, Gone
- Allergic: White Spot
- Letter: Oct. 22
- Fever Dream: Body-Blinded by the Light
- Francis Bacon
- The Personal Is the Political
- Fever Dream: Schizophrenic
- Munchausen by Proxy
- II. Quacking and Tampering in Physic
- Auxiliary Employee
- The Doctor's Receptionist
- Fever Dream: Typhoid Mary Speaks Aboard the Shanghaied Ship
- Letter: Oct. 25
- Whose Time?
- Pub(l)ic
- Soporific
- Allergic: Regression
- Letter: Oct. 30
- Milk Sugar on All Souls' Eve
- Numbers
- Fever Dream: Bipolar
- Lesson of the Fallen Allies: In Sync
- Scopes
- Snellen Eye Chart
- Parts of the Eye
- III. The Seeds of Contagion in Them
- Bouquet
- Allergic: Names
- Letter: Nov. 5
- Growth
- Fever Dream: Affliction/Art
- Conjoined Twins
- Glasses Wearers I Have Known and Loved
- Origin of Sayings
- Intimates
- Letter: Nov. 8
- Fever Dream: Second-Hand Depression
- Lost in Translation
- Salad for Your Eyes
- Those Distaff Bette Davis Eyes
- Fun and Games
- Letter: Nov. 10
- Cottonwood Crow Comet
- Fever Dream: Brainwave
- Symbolism
- Swoop
- IV. The Poyson Is Taken Out of the Sting
- Nails
- Kryptonite
- Fever Dream: A Vision
- Letter: Nov. 14
- Don't Bend Over
- Allergic: Deprived
- The Second Coming
- Bad Fairy
- Fever Dream: Retinal Detachment
- Dermatology
- Allergic: Perspective
- Letter: Dec. 1
- Fever Dream: Streaking after Orwell's 1984
- Bindi
- Making Peace
- Crow
- Fever Dream: What's Left?.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hurdle, Crystal, 1958- Sick witch.
- ISBN:
- 9781553806264
- 1553806263
- OCLC:
- 1129384484
- Publisher Number:
- 99989519543
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