The title Little Pharma is both a doppelg nger and a cri de coeur: as the poet’s dreamlike double, the character Little Pharma navigates the murky channels of the hospital and clinic, the borderlands of the living and the dead, and the journey from novice to healer. At the same time, the poems plead for a return to a littler pharma, a space for stolen intimacy and momentary quiet amid the impersonal and engulfing chill that floods the anatomical theater and the corridors of illness. Little Pharma is a Dantean journey from the depths of an institution, and of a pervading personal dread, to a renewed celebration of human contact, the body, and the giddy, terrifying excitement of ongoing life.
Author: Laura Kolbe
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 10/26/2021
Series: Pitt Poetry
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.87h x 5.91w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9780822966722
Language: English
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