{"product_id":"radium-girl-paperback","title":"Radium Girl - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCeleste Lipkes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eRadium Girl \u003c\/i\u003ehold dual citizenship in the land of the sick and the kingdom of the well. The point where illusion ends and reality begins is never clear, as Celeste Lipkes evokes saints, magicians, scientists, and caregivers in the process of surviving both medical illness and medical training. Slippery metaphors of rabbits in hats, doves in cages, and elaborate escapes explore the inhabitation of a female body as a kind of powerful and violent performance--where the magician's trick of cutting a woman in half is never as far away as we'd like. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With humor (\"When the doctor says, 'We found something, ' \/ I don't say: 'no shit' or 'oh thank God, \/ I've been looking for that sweater everywhere, '\") and heartbreak (\"Every evening I count the dwindling brass coins \/ of my patient's platelets while his wife ices \/ cups of ginger ale he will never drink\"), Lipkes reminds us what it means to feel human, to feel afraid, to feel hopeful, to feel. \u003cbr\u003e I am the magician, even, \u003cbr\u003e some nights alone, \u003cbr\u003e finding inside the darkness \u003cbr\u003e a small, trembling thing \u003cbr\u003e I won't acknowledge as my own. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is someone else's rabbit, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e I say, and the silence nods back. \u003cbr\u003e --Excerpt from \"Rabbit\"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 8.9 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 21, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772651634976,"sku":"9780299341749","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d4d7d12c8d0f57fac64faf8632022413.webp?v=1780410494","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/radium-girl-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}