Amy Shea

Too Poor to Die

The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978843981
• ISBN-10: 1978843984
• Artikelnr.: 72897047

Autorenporträt

Amy Shea holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. Her essays have appeared in The Missouri Review, Portland Review,The Massachusetts Review, the Journal ofSociology of Health & Illness, and others. She is the Writing Program Director for Mount Tamalpais College, a college for incarcerated people in San Quentin.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Jillian Olmsted
Introduction
         
1          Remembering the Forgotten: The Space that Remains 
                     
2          Assaying: On the Anxiety of Positionality                
3          Death by a Thousand Viewings         
4          How to Have a Good Death, or, The Dead Grandma
Essay               
5          The Department of Transitional Assistance: Burial Unit      
6          Field Notes of a Tombstone Tourist                          
7          On Bodies & Embodiment                
8          Sweet Feet                 
9          Deaths of Disparity    
10        Rest in Place: Hospice for Unhoused Individuals
                                                      
11        In
Memoriam                                                                                                             
12        Indexing the Life & Death Experience of Homelessness A
Poem              
 
Acknowledgments    
Bibliography  
Index