Decade of the Brain
Author: Joseph, Janine
ISBN: 9781948579308
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RM146.58
Publisher,Alice James Books
Publication Date,
Format, Paperback
Weight, 204.12 g
No. of Pages, 87
In the deeply personal Decade of the Brain, Janine Joseph writes of a newly-naturalized American citizen who suffers from post-concussive memory loss after a major auto accident. The collection is an odyssey of what it means to recover-physically and mentally-in the aftermath of trauma and traumatic brain injury, charting when before" crosses into "after." Through connected poems, buckling and expansive syntax, ekphrasis, and conjoined poetic forms, Decade of the Brain remembers and misremembers hospital visits, violence and bodily injury, intimate memories, immigration status, family members, and the self"--