Pain woman takes your keys, and other essays from a nervous system
By: Sonya Huber
Series: American lives series; American lives
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780803299917
Subjects: Chronic pain
Description: "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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-183).
Table of contents: title: I. Pain bows in greeting; title: What pain wants; title: The Lava Lamp of pain; title: Welcome to the kingdom of the sick; title: The alphabet of pain; title: Prayer to pain; title: II. Side projects and secret identities; title: My alternate selves with pain in silver lamé bodysuits; title: The cough drop and the puzzle of modernity; title: From inside the egg; title: Cupcakes; title: Amoeba girl; title: III. My machines; title: The status of pain; title: Peering into the dark of the self, with selfie; title: Augmentation; title: Interstate and interbeing; title: Pain woman takes your keys; title: IV. Bitchiness as treatment protocol; title: On gratitude, and off; title: Life is good 1, 2, 3; title: Dear noted feminist scholar; title: V. Intimate moments with the three of us; title: A pain-sex anti-manifesto; title: The joy of not cooking; title: Kidney stone in my shoe; title: If woman is five; title: A day in the grammar of disease; title: VI. Measuring the sky; title: Vital sign 5; title: Alternative pain scale; title: In the grip of the sky; title: Between one and ten thousand; title: Inside the Nautilus.