Winner of the 2020 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Poetry The title
Little Pharma is both a doppelganger and a cri de coeur: 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 amidst the impersonal
and engulfing chill that floods the anatomical theater and the
corridors of illness. The poems trace the arc of a young woman's
life, from being a hesitant and anxious, newly-minted medical
trainee to becoming an adept of the otherworldly logic of the
hospital wards. In between, interludes on love, family life, and
escapes into art and history bob and weave among the hospital
poems, bringing back the hot clamor of the outside world. Little
Pharma 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.
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