How Does It Hurt?
eBook - ePub

How Does It Hurt?

  1. 360 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

How Does It Hurt?

About this book

In How Does It Hurt?, acclaimed poet and biographer Stephanie de Montalk tells the story of the chronic pain that has invaded her life for more than 10 years. She considers how her early experiences have been cast into fresh relief by what she has endured, then goes back in time to investigate the lives and works of three writers who also lived with and wrote about pain: "the consolator, " English social theorist Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), "the vendor of happiness, " French novelist Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897), and "the imago, " Polish poet Aleksander Wat (1900–1967). Through these explorations de Montalk confronts the paradox of writing about suffering: where we can turn when the pain is beyond words? A unique blend of memoir, imaginative biography, and poetry, How Does It Hurt? is a groundbreaking contribution to the understanding of chronic pain and a spellbinding literary achievement.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  6. 1 THE SHIRT OF NESSOS
  7. 2 GOING NURSING
  8. 3 AT THE END OF THE MIND, THE BODY
  9. 4 BUT AT THE END OF THE BODY, THE MIND
  10. 5 THE VENDOR OF HAPPINESS
  11. 6 THE CONSOLATOR
  12. 7 OBSERVATORY
  13. 8 AN IMAGO
  14. 9 HOW DOES IT HURT?
  15. 10 WHITE TRAIN
  16. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  17. NOTES AND REFERENCES
  18. INDEX OF NAMES AND MEDICAL TERMS