{"product_id":"i-divided-poems-paperback-softback-9780807180174","title":"I, Divided; Poems (Paperback \/ softback) 9780807180174","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eI, Divided\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePoems\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChelsea Dingman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780807180174\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 November 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e126 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDingman's poems are experiments in tenderness and vulnerability wrought by the toughened tissues of hard-won scars.\" - John A. Nieves\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By turns gritty, tender, and philosophical, these poems tackle big questions about the nature of the self alongside the intimacies of family life. It's harrowing, but there's grace and holiness here, too.\" - Nancy Reddy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAn underlying cynicism lies at the heart of the questions asked by Chelsea Dingman's \u003ci\u003eI, Divided:\u003c\/i\u003e What is a life worth? Today. Now. Why is that? Who gives anyone permission to be? And how is that determined?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI, Divided\u003c\/i\u003e operates as if within a swirling hurricane, beginning and ending amid the same human concerns, tracing a life cycle and its repetition.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551793574168,"sku":"9780807180174","price":15.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/i-divided-poems-paperback-softback-9780807180174","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}