Identifying the Pathogen

Jennifer Militello (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

132 Seiten

2026
Tupelo Press, Incorporated (Verlag)
978-1-961209-44-2 (ISBN)

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A hybrid collection blending historical research and contemporary essays to consider the nature of oppressive marriage and gender inequity.

Composed as a lab notebook recording various surgeries, autopsies, and experiments, Identifying the Pathogen tells the story of a scientist on an obsessive quest to document an ailment that resists classification. The book considers the body in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, woven through with the story of Anna Morandi Manzolini—an eighteenth-century Italian anatomist and artist who struggled to support a husband suffering from depression—as well as several essays detailing accounts of a ruptured appendix, a splintered cello, and an ill-fated rock climbing excursion.

Jennifer Militello is the poet laureate of New Hampshire. She is the author of the memoir Knock Wood and five collections of poetry, including, most recently, The Pact. Militello’s work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, and Poetry Wales. Her poem “Mansplaining” is recited by high school students across the nation each year as part of the Poetry Out Loud national arts education program. She has taught at Brown University, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and the Rhode Island School of Design, and is currently a faculty member in the MFA program at New England College.

Contents

i.
Anna Morandi Manzolini
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the influence of vision on the mind
the lab
the body
philtrum
pericardium
sinus
post script
the lab
+
Wax Self-Portrait
Wax Portrait of a Husband
Wax Portrait of a Marriage
Autopsy Report
+
the body
cell
bone
mortality
the body
traits/the eye
+
The Ten Commandments of the Anatomist’s Wife
Wax Portrait of a Husband
Wax Portrait of a Cadaver
Autopsy Report
+
vision
travel
the body
microscope slide
blood/leukemia
respiration
blood

ii.
Anna Morandi Manzolini
+
the lab
the lab
in the lab/ill
identifying the pathogen
musculoskeletal
physiognomy
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Wax Self-Portrait
Wax Portrait of a Husband
Autopsy Report
+
blood/heart
blood
genetics/the cell/reproduction/asexual
landscape with fossils/diatoms/day with
the lab
spring/bloomings/foliage/flora
scales
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Wax Self-Portrait
Wax Portrait of a Cadaver
Wax Portrait of a Cadaver
Autopsy Report
+
time/day: transmutations
mortality
open season
the lab
vivisection
iii.
Anna Morandi Manzolini
+
time/lab
s(k)in(s)
corollaries
the lab
time/day: transmutations
+
Wax Portrait of Husband as Male Anglerfish
Wax Portrait of a Marriage
Wax Portrait of a Cadaver
+
blood
pestilent tether/garroted frenzy/anaerobic ferment
eye/vision
mind
the body
radar eve

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Wax Portrait of a Son
Wax Portrait
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the lab
specimen slide
brain
vivisection
the lab
the circle museum
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Anna Morandi Manzolini

notes & acknowledgments 132

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.2.2026
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	254 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-961209-44-6 / 1961209446
ISBN-13	978-1-961209-44-2 / 9781961209442
Zustand	Neuware