Articulations: The Body and Illness in Poetry

edited by Jon Mukand

University of Iowa Press, 1994
Paper: 978-0-87745-478-6
Library of Congress Classification PS595.C37A78 1994
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54080920824

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

In 1987 poet and physician Jon Mukand published Sutured Words, a volume of contemporary poems to help patients, their families and friends, and all health care professionals embrace the complexity of healing, illness, and death. Robert Coles called the collection “a wonderful source of inspiration and instruction for any of us who are trying to figure out what our work means”; Norman Cousins was impressed by the “discernment and high quality of the selections.” Now, in Articulations, Mukand adds more than a hundred new poems to the strongest poems from Sutured Words to give us a lyrical, enlightened understanding of the human dimensions of suffering and illness

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Jon Mukand has a Ph.D. in English literature from Brown University and a medical degree, with honors in research, from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Editor of Sutured Words: Contemporary Poetry about Medicine, whose strongest poems were included in Articulations, Vital Lines: Contemporary Fiction about Medicine, and Rehabilitations for Patients with HIV Disease, he is the medical director of a rehabilitation center as well as a faculty member at Boston University and Brown University.

REVIEWS

“This gem of a thematic anthology achieves the seemingly impossible—twice. First, in more than 400 pages, it contains not a single clinker. Second, it returns poetry to the people, for one or another of these poems about sickness, hospitals, and suffering affords inspiration, comfort, knowledge, or emotional impact for virtually everyone.”—Booklist

“[This anthology] asserts that the body's emergencies inspire poetry; so urgent are their subjects, some of the poems seem almost to have been written in blood, without a moment's pause to ponder their implications… [Mukand's work] admirably attempts to bring together some of the most important poetry on illness, work that lays bare the awful, exquisite, and jutting bones of the body disrupted.”—Parnassus

“…patients and their families may learn that they are not alone in their trials: others have traveled the difficult ground, measured it, and passed along their discoveries. Thus, any one who is mortal can profit from reading this book.”—Literature and Medicine

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