Harm

By: Hillary Gravendyk

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Paperback | 1 April 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Offering a new narrative of physical body constituted in perilous scenes of contact, Harm performs the loss of that fictive division between a unified body and its surrounding world. Terrifying and unlooked-for harmonies emerge in these poems, which dwell in a medicalized landscape where both the body and the land are monitored and laid bare. Troubling the idea of cure by recasting it in the terms of harm, Harm shifts between warning and error, nature and the body. In the sense of Baudelaire’s “correspondences,” blood clots externalize into “sunclots” and the air is “rusty with blood.” The book troubles the idea of cure by casting it also as a form of harm itself. Moving amid the prose poem and the lyric, Harm navigates a landscape of extremity both frightening and filled with wonders.

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" Harm , Hillary Gravendyk's powerful first book of poetry, is a book that resists summary--indeed, one might aptly term it a book of resistances... A book of awarenesses and sensations; it articulates the micro-wisdoms of that peculiarly timeless condition that is everyday life, the site of lyric embodiment and our extraordinary mortality." --Lyn Hejinian, author, The Book of a Thousand Eyes "Builds a botanica of hurts and healings, ruptures and resolutions. Its prose poems flesh out a world of intention and resemblance, and its exploded lyrics ring with 'bright sound.' The poems are beautiful and seek to rethink the beautiful, inviting us into a world that 'riots and unspools.'" --Elizabeth Willis, author, Address and Meteoric Flowers "Most of Gravendyk's brief and evocative poems concern her recovery from major surgery: most of those achieve formal variety, emotional clarity (pain, fear, gratitude), and a jeweled fragmentation of phrasing." -- Publishers Weekly (January 16, 2012)

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