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- Author: Celeste Lipkes
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Pages: 96
- ISBN-10: 0299341747
- ISBN-13: 9780299341749
- Format: 15 x 22.6 x 1 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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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.
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- Author: Celeste Lipkes
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Pages: 96
- ISBN-10: 0299341747
- ISBN-13: 9780299341749
- Format: 15 x 22.6 x 1 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
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.
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