I, divided : poems / Chelsea Dingman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dingman, Chelsea, author.

Language:

English

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 114 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"At the heart of the questions asked by Chelsea Dingman's I, Divided lies an underlying cynicism. What is a life worth? Today. Now. Why is that? Who gives anyone permission to be? And how is that determined? In poems that use the science behind chaos theory as a lens for examining illness and agency, Dingman explores the divide between determination and accident, whereby the body becomes a site of exploration as well as elegy in cases of disease such as brain injury, cancer, and addiction. Much like weather patterns, inherited histories of violence and disease are cyclical. They remain at once determined and yet undetermined, becoming ultimately chaotic. The "I" of the title is fractured over several divides: as subordinate to illness and to a past that is invariable, and finally as an agent of change. The poems in I, Divided function as if within a swirling hurricane, beginning and ending in the midst of the same human concerns, tracing a life cycle and its repetition"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"LSU Press paperback original"

Other Format:

Online version: Dingman, Chelsea. I, divided

ISBN:

9780807180174

0807180173

OCLC:

1355648422