{"product_id":"a-fate-worse-than-death-9781551529455","title":"A Fate Worse Than Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoems that interrogate the complexities of disability, based on the author's evaluation of her own medical records\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Fate Worse Than Death\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning poetic investigation of the worthiness of disabled life as told through the author's evaluation of her own medical records over the course of a decade. Living with treatment-resistant diabetes, bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and complex chronic pain, Nisha Patel reveals how her multiple disabilities intertwine with her day-to-day life, even when care and treatments are not available. As she works through bouts of illness, neglect, and care, Patel reveals how poetry provides her a way to resist the sway of medical hegemony and instead offer complex accounts of pain, sickness, and anger, but also love.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNavigating the menial and capitalist systems of health care and paperwork, documentation, and forms, Patel uses clinical texts in visual poems that show how words like \u003ci\u003epatient\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eclient\u003c\/i\u003e underscore medical access and denial of coverage more than words like \u003ci\u003eperson\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ecare\u003c\/i\u003e. Patel asks us to consider if her life is worth living--and saving. The future of her disabled body and her desire for it is a building meditation as the collection progresses, ending not so much with a finite ending of cured illness and disease than with a look at how we can embody hope and joy in a disabled body, as it is the body that, like time, goes on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNisha Patel\u003c\/b\u003e is the Poet Laureate Emeritus of the City of Edmonton. An award-winning disabled and queer artist, she is a Canadian Poetry Slam Champion. She is a recipient of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Medal and the Edmonton Artists' Trust Fund, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eCoconut\u003c\/i\u003e (NeWest Press).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50509780943122,"sku":"9781551529455","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_70b04f3f-beea-4a0a-a397-adb1b8e58892.jpg?v=1730907621","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-fate-worse-than-death-9781551529455","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}