Jagadakeer : Apology to the Body / Lory Bedikian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bedikian, Lory, author.

Series:

The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (118 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2024]

Summary:

Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body presents the voice of a daughter of immigrant parents, now gone, from Lebanon and Syria and of Armenian descent.

Contents:

Cover Page

The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Ode to Their Leaving

Hiereeg [means father in Armenian]

Meditation on Fractured Vertebrae

Father dreams of Gibran

Theorizing Vahan's Departure

Psychosomatic disorder

Chaparral

If only he had written his refugee song

WHEN YOU ARE WRITING YOUR FATHER'S HEADSTONE

The Tooth is Dead

Miereeg [means mother in Armenian]

Before the Elegy, Speak to Her

Fragments of Melancholy from Those Rooms, Those Rooms

Broccoli

The pharmaceutical that killed my mother

Syllabics for My Mother

Zevart, Ode to Joy

Fragment

Sestina, as my mother cooks

Another word for bitterness is ache

Yehs [means I in Armenian]

Apology to the Body

Looking at the mri Six Years Later

Beloved Denial

Ode to Illness: rant in the form of monologue

Hypochondria

Needle Biopsy

Optic Neuritis

I make love to my lesions

Defining 50 Lesions

Partial Tubectomy Revisited

Harmonic Implications on Daylight Saving Time

Manifesto

In Lieu of an Epilogue

When Your Mother Dies During a Pandemic

Pandemic Tally: At Odds with May

Longevity: part pseudo-memoir, part commentary

Flare-Up: Week Eleven, Twelve

Lexicon

The Disease in Me May Be a Demigod After All

Ability

My Shaking Hand Will Not Determine My Fate

To have a backbone can also mean to have spunk

Jagadakeer: In Remission

1. History

2. Exam

3. Technique

4. Comparison

5. Findings

6. Impression: without contrast

7. Impression: with contrast

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner book prize in poetry, 2024.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496241283

1496241282

9781496241276

1496241274

OCLC:

1455131268