Carefully assembled poetic fragments: Offers a unique lens through which to view illness and daily experience
Written from inside the body in crisis: Provides intimate, first-person insight into the physical and emotional toll of sickness
Focus on decay, memory, and death: Explores themes that complicate and redefine our understanding of selfhood
Challenging notions of language and humanity: Questions what it means to be human in the face of physical and mental breakdown
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By Joshua Beckman
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Enacting both the pain and heightened awareness of a body in crisis, Joshua Beckman’s latest collection of carefully assembled poetic fragments seeks to elucidate the synthetic reality of being sick and being medicated. Written from inside of illness and gathered over several years, these fragme
