{"product_id":"the-undying-pain-vulnerability-mortality-medicine-art-time-dreams-data-exhaustion-cancer-and-care-paperback","title":"The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne Boyer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Undying\u003c\/i\u003e is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer, ' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself.\" --Sally Rooney, author of \u003ci\u003eNormal People\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Anne Boyer's radically unsentimental account of cancer and the 'carcinogenosphere' obliterates cliche. By demonstrating how her utterly specific experience is also irreducibly social, she opens up new spaces for thinking and feeling together. \u003ci\u003eThe Undying\u003c\/i\u003e is an outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique.\" --Ben Lerner, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Topeka School\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA twenty-first-century \u003ci\u003eIllness as Metaphor\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival, \u003ci\u003eThe Undying \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, corporate lies, John Donne, pro-pain \"dolorists,\" the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders of capitalism. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of \"pink ribbon culture\" while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker, Susan Sontag, and others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA genre-bending memoir in the tradition of \u003ci\u003eThe Argonauts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Undying\u003c\/i\u003e will break your heart, make you angry enough to spit, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally, perversely glorious. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes black-and-white illustrations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Boyer \u003c\/b\u003eis a poet and essayist. She was the inaugural winner of the 2018 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and winner of the 2018 Whiting Award in nonfiction\/poetry. Her books include \u003ci\u003eA Handbook of Disappointed Fate\u003c\/i\u003e as well as several books of poetry, including the 2016 CLMP Firecracker Award-winning \u003ci\u003eGarments Against Women\u003c\/i\u003e. She was born and raised in Kansas, and was educated in its public schools and libraries. Since 2011, Boyer has been a professor at the Kansas City Art Institute. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.5 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769307037984,"sku":"9781250757982","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/564817185477edbdb89a3f91d5f8dcd5.webp?v=1780345584","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-undying-pain-vulnerability-mortality-medicine-art-time-dreams-data-exhaustion-cancer-and-care-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}