The undying pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care

"A fresh, fierce, and timely meditation on data, pain, time, and the limited capacity of literature to comprehend life and death in a sensate and vulnerable body." --

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Main Author: Boyer, Anne, 1973- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
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Summary:"A fresh, fierce, and timely meditation on data, pain, time, and the limited capacity of literature to comprehend life and death in a sensate and vulnerable body." --
Physical Description:308 pages ; 20 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780374279349
0374279349
Author Notes:Anne Boyer is a poet and essayist. She was the inaugural winner of the 2018 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and winner of the 2018 Whiting Award in nonfiction/poetry. Her books include A Handbook of Disappointed Fate as well as several books of poetry, including the 2016 CLMP Firecracker Award-winning Garments Against Women . She was born and raised in Kansas, and was educated in its public schools and libraries. Since 2011, Boyer has been a professor at the Kansas City Art Institute. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.