Surgical Wing - by Kristin Robertson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A quiet swan song, Robertson's debut explores what it means to celebrate life and learn how to die.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>"In <i>Surgical Wing</i>, you will find yourself in phone booths, county fairs, fishing boats, and among ghosts. Strange birds will enter hospital waiting rooms. You will be seduced by knot-makers. You will witness illness, grief, and healing. Finally, the book itself will become the wings that steer you to a greater understanding of yourself and the world." --Anna Silver</p><p>In <i>Surgical Wing</i>, surrealistic poems visit an experimental hospital ward, manifesting visions of winged angels and medical tests, as we bear witness to a doctor's' meddling and miracles. Robertson's poems challenge the internal and external metamorphoses of the human condition and the juxtaposition between death and life by personifying the soul through images of birds.</p><p><b>From "You're About to Fold a Paper Airplane" </b></p><p>Build evidence of air. Pull the results of your blood test<br>from the mailbox. Fold in half: you have wings already.</p><p>Abnormal? Fold again. You can't see the inner-workings<br>of an aircraft. And when you're folding, you can't study</p><p>much else. Book your tumor markers a flight to Bora Bora.<br>Vector, Victor. Clearance, Clarence. On any scrap of paper</p><p>write <i>carry</i>. Write <i>heavenward</i>. Write <i>I choose this over you</i>.<br>Replace <i>this</i>. With <i>flying</i>. With <i>peregrination</i>. Or write</p><p><i>I can't fear you another morning</i>. And fold.</p><p><b>Kristin Robertson</b> is a native of East Tennessee, and she graduated with a PhD in creative writing from Georgia State University in Atlanta. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in <i>Harvard Review</i>, <i>Indiana Review</i>, <i>TriQuarterly</i>, <i>Third Coast</i>, and <i>Verse Daily</i>, among other journals. Kristin lives outside Los Angeles and teaches at the University of California, Riverside.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Kristin Robertson is a native of East Tennessee, and she graduated with a PhD in creative writing from Georgia State University in Atlanta. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in <i>Harvard Review, Indiana Review, TriQuarterly, Third Coast, </i> and <i>Verse Daily, </i> among other journals. Kristin lives outside Los Angeles and teaches at the University of California, Riverside.
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