Research Catalog

Title

Pain woman takes your keys, and other essays from a nervous system / Sonya Huber.

Author

Huber, Sonya, 1971-

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]

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Details

Description

xi, 183 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universal element of human experience, is dimly understood and sometimes barely managed. Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System is a collection of literary and experimental essays about living with chronic pain. Sonya Huber moves away from a linear narrative to step through the doorway into pain itself, into that strange, unbounded reality. Although the essays are personal in nature, this collection is not a record of the author's specific condition but an exploration that transcends pain's airless and constraining world and focuses on its edges from wild and widely ranging angles."--

Series Statement

American lives series

Uniform Title

American lives

Subject

• Chronic pain
• Chronic Pain
• Douleur chronique
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays
• HEALTH & FITNESS > Physical Impairments
• Chronischer Schmerz
• Literatur

Genre/Form

• Popular Work
• Essay
• essays.
• Essays
• Essais.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-183).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Pain bows in greeting -- What pain wants -- The Lava Lamp of pain -- Welcome to the kingdom of the sick -- The alphabet of pain -- Prayer to pain -- II. Side projects and secret identities -- My alternate selves with pain in silver lamé bodysuits -- The cough drop and the puzzle of modernity -- From inside the egg -- Cupcakes -- Amoeba girl -- III. My machines -- The status of pain -- Peering into the dark of the self, with selfie -- Augmentation -- Interstate and interbeing -- Pain woman takes your keys -- IV. Bitchiness as treatment protocol -- On gratitude, and off -- Life is good 1, 2, 3 -- Dear noted feminist scholar -- V. Intimate moments with the three of us -- A pain-sex anti-manifesto -- The joy of not cooking -- Kidney stone in my shoe -- If woman is five -- A day in the grammar of disease -- VI. Measuring the sky -- Vital sign 5 -- Alternative pain scale -- In the grip of the sky -- Between one and ten thousand -- Inside the Nautilus.

ISBN

• 9780803299917
• 0803299915
• 9781496200839 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781496200846 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781496200853 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2016034811

OCLC

962244521

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library