The Right Hand - Pugh, Christina
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Poems that radiate with incredible artistic vision and writerly craft. Pain, piercing, and language: with urgent lyricism and lacunae on the page, The Right Hand explores the physical, emotional, and philosophical experiences of chronic pain, bodywork (especially acupuncture), and healing. In the second half of the collection, the poet spends extended time with Bernini's sculpture of St. Teresa in Ecstasy in Rome, finding this famous scene of wounding to be in dialogue with her own experience of pain, as well as her suspension between languages and spiritual isolation. In The Right Hand, the…mehr

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Poems that radiate with incredible artistic vision and writerly craft. Pain, piercing, and language: with urgent lyricism and lacunae on the page, The Right Hand explores the physical, emotional, and philosophical experiences of chronic pain, bodywork (especially acupuncture), and healing. In the second half of the collection, the poet spends extended time with Bernini's sculpture of St. Teresa in Ecstasy in Rome, finding this famous scene of wounding to be in dialogue with her own experience of pain, as well as her suspension between languages and spiritual isolation. In The Right Hand, the hidden sites of the body speak, and Bernini's centuries-old arrow pierces us with hurting eloquence.
Autorenporträt
Christina Pugh is the author of five previous books of poems including Stardust Media, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry; and Perception, named one of the top poetry books of 2017 by Chicago Review of Books; as well as a book of essays titled Ghosts and the Overplus: Reading Poetry in the Twenty-First Century. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Yale Review, and many other publications. A former Guggenheim fellow in poetry, she has received fellowships and awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council. A recent visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, she is professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.