{"product_id":"little-pharma-poems-paperback","title":"Little Pharma: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaura Kolbe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title \u003ci\u003eLittle Pharma\u003c\/i\u003e is both a doppelgänger and a \u003ci\u003ecri de coeur\u003c\/i\u003e: as the poet's dreamlike double, the character Little Pharma navigates the murky channels of the hospital and clinic, the borderlands of the living and the dead, and the journey from novice to healer. At the same time, the poems plead for a return to a littler pharma, a space for stolen intimacy and momentary quiet amid the impersonal and engulfing chill that floods the anatomical theater and the corridors of illness. \u003ci\u003eLittle Pharma\u003c\/i\u003e is a Dantean journey from the depths of an institution, and of a pervading personal dread, to a renewed celebration of human contact, the body, and the giddy, terrifying excitement of ongoing life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcerpt from \"Intensive Care\" \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDoctor, I don my day-face \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003elike a net of cathodes, drained\u003cbr\u003eof all irruption, non-particular. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhose mask and sign\u003cbr\u003eis Sun. Enter this sickroom \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ebugged with surging pentecosts of light, \u003cbr\u003ethe green tracings \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eof the representative heart.\u003cbr\u003ePermit now its miraculous whim.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura Kolbe\u003c\/b\u003e is a physician, medical ethicist, and writer. Her poems have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e series and in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Conjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Harper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Her first collection, \u003ci\u003eLittle Pharma\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her chapbook \u003ci\u003eKeeping House: Six Longer Love Poems\u003c\/i\u003e was selected by Kwame Dawes as the Center for Book Arts annual chapbook contest winner.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eShe teaches and practices medicine in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 7.87 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 26, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779118956607,"sku":"9780822966722","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/samiestore.shop\/products\/little-pharma-poems-paperback","provider":"Samie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}