Toxemia

Christine McNair (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

120 Seiten

2025
Book*hug (Verlag)
978-1-77166-914-6 (ISBN)

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In this alchemy of anger and love, history and memoir, Christine McNair delves into various forms of toxicity in the body-from the effects of two life-threatening preeclampsia diagnoses to chronic illness, sexism in medicine, and the toll of societal expectations.With catharsis and humour,Toxemiapieces together the complexities of identity, motherhood, and living in a body to share deeply recognizable raw truths through fragments, poems, and stories. McNair captures the wrenching feeling of loss of control in the face of an overwhelming medical diagnosis and the small, endless moments in life that underscore it: worrying about mortality in the middle of the night, revolving medical appointments, self-doubt, and all the ways in which illness interrupts.

Toxemiaunravels the toxicities that haunt the human body from within and without. This hybrid work dips between the sacred and profane to expose-and hold -some of our greatest fears while reaching to mend what's still possible to mend.

Christine McNair is the author of Charm (winner of the 2018 Archibald Lampman Award) and Conflict (finalist for the City of Ottawa Book Award, the Archibald Lampman Award, and the ReLit Award for Poetry). She was also nominated for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Her chapbook pleasantries and other misdemeanours was shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award. Her work has appeared in sundry literary journals and anthologies. McNair lives in Ottawa where she works as a book doctor.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.10.2024
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	1-77166-914-4 / 1771669144
ISBN-13	978-1-77166-914-6 / 9781771669146
Zustand	Neuware