{"product_id":"radium-girl-9780299341749","title":"Radium Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eRadium Girl\u003c\/em\u003e hold 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the breathtaking ‘escape room’ of Celeste Lipkes’s \u003ci\u003eRadium Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, our ardent guide dons, by turns, the snow-flaked robe of patient, the white coat of physician, the lustrous cape of magician. The word ‘magic’ is rooted in the PIE ‘\u003ci\u003emagh\u003c\/i\u003e to be able, to have power and in this radiant debut, body and mystery exchange their secrets about what can and cannot be controlled in illness, in love, and in the salvific art of poetry itself.\" - Lisa Russ Spaar, author of \u003ci\u003eMadrigalia:  New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eParadise Close:  A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Celeste Lipkes, poet and clinical psychiatrist, is Dr. Oliver Sacks and Stevie Smith rolled into one. With perspicacity, her luminous first book meditates on many odd juxtapositions including Houdini and medical school, Crohn’s disease and love. Dividing her idiosyncratic lyrics into four sections Rabbit, Dove, Hemicorporectomy, and Escape \u003ci\u003eRadium Girl \u003c\/i\u003ebrings us close to a young speaker under pressure to honor the Hippocratic oath and make her way in the world. Annie Dillard said poets to be poets should study something else. Lipkes did, to great success: by the last page, her poetry radiates with talent, acuity, and originality.\" - Spencer Reece, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Clerk’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Gospel of Mark: A Poet’s Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRabbit\u003cbr\u003e sonnet\u003cbr\u003e mel·lif·er·ous\u003cbr\u003e Moon Face\u003cbr\u003e Anatomy Lab\u003cbr\u003e Eve Miscarries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dove\u003cbr\u003e ne·pen·thes\u003cbr\u003e Instructions for My Lover\u003cbr\u003e La Brea Tar Pits\u003cbr\u003e cousin\u003cbr\u003e A Kite Addresses Benjamin Franklin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hemicorporectomy\u003cbr\u003e a pair of impossible objects\u003cbr\u003e cam·pa·nol·o·gy\u003cbr\u003e Hospital through a Teleidoscope\u003cbr\u003e Snail\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Escape\u003cbr\u003e infusion room praise song\u003cbr\u003e al·bes·cent\u003cbr\u003e two small fish\u003cbr\u003e Alphekka\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes","brand":"MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036939452759,"sku":"9780299341749","price":14.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780299341749.jpg?v=1750933104","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/radium-girl-9780299341749","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}