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oapen-20.500.12657-907902024-06-06T02:26:05Z A Story of Witchery Calkins, Jennifer Harris, Thor Gerstler, Amy disability studies;fairytale;poetry;medical memoir;witchery;medicine thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FN Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales::FNF Fairy and Folk tales / Fairy tale retellings thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FC Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FX Fiction: narrative themes::FXT Narrative theme: Diversity, equality, inclusion thema EDItEUR::V Health, Relationships and Personal development::VF Family and health::VFJ Coping with / advice about personal, social and health topics::VFJD Coping with / advice about physical impairments / disability thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DC Poetry::DCF Poetry by individual poets thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DC Poetry::DCC Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) Fantasy, fear, and freedom all play a part in A Story of Witchery, a book-length narrative poem by Jennifer Calkins, and newly illustrated by Thor Harris. Here we meet Emily, our “small and weedy” protagonist, an orphan complicit (perhaps) in her own abandonment who is caught up, as poet Amy Gerstler writes in her Introduction, in a story “entwined with science facts and twisted clinical fictions.” In language rolling and tripping with spare precision, Calkins makes a modern pilgrim progress into the imagination and the dark world of medicine. Rich and haunting images create a seemingly familiar environment which, like the internal landscape of the protagonist, dissolves only to reform, until finally resolving into a healed whole. 2024-06-05T11:36:49Z 2024-06-05T11:36:49Z 2024 book 9781685712204 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90790 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 0517.1.00.pdf https://punctumbooks.com/titles/a-story-of-witchery/ punctum books Les Figues 10.53288/0517.1.00 10.53288/0517.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9781685712204 Les Figues 185 Brooklyn, NY open access
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Fantasy, fear, and freedom all play a part in A Story of Witchery, a book-length narrative poem by Jennifer Calkins, and newly illustrated by Thor Harris. Here we meet Emily, our “small and weedy” protagonist, an orphan complicit (perhaps) in her own abandonment who is caught up, as poet Amy Gerstler writes in her Introduction, in a story “entwined with science facts and twisted clinical fictions.” In language rolling and tripping with spare precision, Calkins makes a modern pilgrim progress into the imagination and the dark world of medicine. Rich and haunting images create a seemingly familiar environment which, like the internal landscape of the protagonist, dissolves only to reform, until finally resolving into a healed whole.
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