Unmeaningable
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Unmeaningable

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Unmeaningable

About this book

Winner of the 2020 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the 2020 Raymond Souster Award, Unmeaningable welcomes you to the freak show, where the monster on display is a culture that stigmatizes sickness and a system that shames the sufferer. Behold the wonder of the ages, a human mind in a human body, dissected and displayed for entertainment. Witness the ritual of surgical sacrifice! Observe the indignity of institutionalization! Be astounded by the indifference of ableism and ignorance! This uncanny collection of "crippled" sonnets features a thrilling display of cannibals, chimeras, and the crucial question: What meaning can be made of a life lived in pain and isolation?

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. The Trick
  6. Bag of Holding
  7. Waiting List
  8. Waiting Room
  9. My Toad Oracle
  10. Tree-Women, Delightful Forbidden Fruit
  11. Empirical Evidence
  12. The Devil’s Ritual
  13. Curse of the Hyacinth
  14. Hyacinth Waits
  15. Code of Conduct
  16. Language of Pain
  17. Malady
  18. Hour of Rat
  19. Shadow Gallery
  20. Wishes for Strangers
  21. Blue Rose
  22. Clockwhore Sings
  23. Language of Hospital
  24. Aphagia
  25. The Omniscient Physician Who Removes Every Pain
  26. Bitch
  27. Sire
  28. Rabbit Hole
  29. Viscera
  30. Litter
  31. Lazybone’s Lament
  32. Space Invaders
  33. Ailment
  34. Star Follows Tower After Catastrophe
  35. transMutable, Beautiful
  36. June, Swarm of the Songbees
  37. Leave You Not To The Moths
  38. Cure for Flightlessness
  39. Orison of the Wormmother
  40. Migratory Patterns of the Common Cripple
  41. Breathbirds
  42. Unseen Garden
  43. Waiting Room IX
  44. Intake Questionnaire
  45. Abdication of the Sick Queen
  46. Mandrake the Magician
  47. ā€œField Kabukiā€
  48. Eat the Rude
  49. Orison of the Dogmother
  50. A Great Becoming
  51. Typhoid & Swans
  52. The Hermit Holds Up Her Lantern
  53. Empress of Cups
  54. Pan’s Labyrinth
  55. Recovery Narrative
  56. House of Psychotic Women
  57. Comfortchurch
  58. The Reflecting Skin
  59. Feast for the Yellow King
  60. Gathering Mandrakes
  61. Naked Lunch
  62. Black Sunday
  63. Dystonic Storm
  64. Progression of the Disorder
  65. Scales & Ladders
  66. Neo Orphan
  67. Rat Race
  68. ā€œKnow My Son That Our Wound is Animal-Likeā€
  69. Code White
  70. The Horologist Contemplates the Cuckoo Clock
  71. Best Wishes
  72. Let’s Talk
  73. In a Nutshell
  74. Clinician’s Notes II
  75. Initiation of the Supplicant
  76. Slow Drop Down a Deep Well
  77. ā€œPuncture of the Body as Divine Healingā€
  78. Birds & Breath
  79. ā€œ{(Our Lady of Sickbag)}ā€
  80. ā€œmother as the embodiment of an ancient womanā€
  81. In Spring The Skull Holes Fill w Flowers
  82. ā€œThe Lantern & The Ornate Eyeā€
  83. The Last of the Iron Lungs
  84. Unsustainable Blue Does Not Occur in Nature
  85. Notes and acknowledgments
  86. Sources and Selected Reference Material
  87. About the Author