Naming the Leper: Barataria Poetry
Autor Christopher Lee Manesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 feb 2020
While confined at Carville, the Landry siblings attempted to keep some connection to the outside world by writing letters to family members and other loved ones. Manes incorporates materials from this correspondence, along with medical records, the leprosarium newsletter, and personal interviews, as he crafts poems that reconstruct his relatives' daily lives at Carville. Although much can only be imagined, their words remain factual and their feelings of loneliness, abandonment, and pain become explicit. Poetry cannot bring Manes's relatives back to life, nor can it heal wounds nearly a century old, but it can capture the sufferings and traumas caused by disease and exile. As a work of documentary poetry, Naming the Leper demonstrates that a term like "leper," whether a stigma attached to patients suffering from illness or a word inscribed on the caskets of the deceased, cannot define the lives of individuals or encompass the full extent of their legacies.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780807171127
ISBN-10: 0807171123
Pagini: 102
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Twin Flame Productions LLC
Seria Barataria Poetry
ISBN-10: 0807171123
Pagini: 102
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Twin Flame Productions LLC
Seria Barataria Poetry
Notă biografică
Christopher Lee Manes is a poet, scholar, and educator whose work has appeared in Louisiana History, the Southwestern Review, and Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America. He lives in Dallas, Texas.
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As a work of documentary poetry, Naming the Leper demonstrates that a term like "leper", whether a stigma attached to patients suffering from illness or a word inscribed on the caskets of the deceased, cannot define the lives of individuals or encompass the full extent of their legacies.