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I, Divided: Poems

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Availability:In StockContributor:Chelsea DingmanPublish date:2023-11-01Pages:126
Language:EnglishPublisher:Louisiana State University PressISBN-13:9780807180174ISBN-10:807180173UPC:9780807180174Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:FamilySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4299Product ID:SCRTNKRC5D

An underlying cynicism lies at the heart of the questions asked by Chelsea Dingman's I, Divided: What is a life worth? Today. Now. Why is that? Who gives anyone permission to be? And how is that determined?

In poems that use the science behind chaos theory as a lens for examining illness and agency, Dingman explores the divide between determination and accident, whereby the body becomes a site of exploration as well as elegy in cases of disease such as traumatic brain injury, cancer, and addiction. Much like weather patterns, inherited histories of violence and disease are cyclical. They remain at once determined and yet undetermined, becoming ultimately chaotic. The "I" of the title is fractured over several divides, subordinated to illness and to a past that is invariable, though finally morphs as an agent of change.

I, Divided operates as if within a swirling hurricane, beginning and ending amid the same human concerns, tracing a life cycle and its repetition.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Louisiana State University PressISBN-13:9780807180174ISBN-10:807180173UPC:9780807180174Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:FamilySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4299Product ID:SCRTNKRC5D
Chelsea Dingman is the author of Thaw, chosen by Allison Joseph for the National Poetry Series, and Through a Small Ghost, selected by Travis Wayne Denton for the Georgia Poetry Prize. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Alberta.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press

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