| Description |
87 pages ; 19 cm |
| Contents |
I. Cataloguing pain as marriage counseling -- A poem for when you ask what's wrong -- Fall risk -- The name in the doorway -- A catalogue of repetitive behaviors -- On a good night, we fell like talking. In our bed, I explain to my wife -- Diagnosis -- I can't forget how empty doorways stand, freezing -- How to be gay in Missouri -- Roadside bible verses -- Litany for the living -- During the days after my official MS diagnosis -- Blackest black -- Pain as memoir -- I can't forget, can't return, all the once -- Elegy for my wife -- II. This is the only conversation we will have about the embryos -- Fly season -- Pain as caged birds -- Daughter, before you thought in words -- 3 am on the toilet, the shell forgets -- I know I'm still breathing from my lungs -- Running as self-portrait -- Everyone waits at the DMV -- Cataloguing pain as non-narcotic pain reliever -- Acknowledgements. |
| Summary |
"Cataloguing Pain by Allison Blevins explores motherhood, sexuality, and queerness as it juxtaposes the author's diagnosis of MS with her partner's gender transition. As one body moves toward unfamiliarity, a state of chronic pain, a sense of being caged, the other is escaping pain, emerging into its true self, becoming free. Cataloguing Pain chronicles both trauma and hope through marriage, illness, and motherhood as the author learns how to live in a disabled body"--Publisher's website. |
| Subject |
Prose poems, American -- 21st century.
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People with disabilities -- Poetry.
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Gender transition -- Poetry.
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Families -- Poetry.
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Gender transition. (OCoLC)fst02015111
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People with disabilities. (OCoLC)fst01057245
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Prose poems, American. (OCoLC)fst01079317
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| ISBN |
9781936919925 |
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1936919923 |
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