{"product_id":"little-pharma-poems-9780822966722","title":"Little Pharma: Poems","description":"The title \u003ci\u003eLittle Pharma\u003c\/i\u003e is both a doppelg?nger and a \u003ci\u003ecri de coeur\u003c\/i\u003e as the poet's dreamlike double, the character Little Pharma navigates the murky channels of the hospital and clinic, the borderlands of the living and the dead, and the journey from novice to healer. At the same time, the poems plead for a return to a littler pharma, a space for stolen intimacy and momentary quiet amid the impersonal and engulfing chill that floods the anatomical theater and the corridors of illness. \u003ci\u003eLittle Pharma\u003c\/i\u003e is a Dantean journey from the depths of an institution, and of a pervading personal dread, to a renewed celebration of human contact, the body, and the giddy, terrifying excitement of ongoing life. \u003cb\u003eExcerpt from \"Intensive Care\" \u003c\/b\u003e Doctor, I don my day-face like a net of cathodes, drained of all irruption, non-particular. Whose mask and sign is Sun. Enter this sickroom bugged with surging pentecosts of light, the green tracings of the representative heart. Permit now its miraculous whim.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura Kolbe \u003c\/b\u003eis a doctor and medical ethicist at New York-Presbyterian\/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She studied English and American literature at Harvard and the University of Cambridge. Her work has been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eA World Out of Reach\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner Andrew and their dog Bonnie.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50511152808210,"sku":"9780822966722","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4147e6f8-55f2-4bbf-84ce-501a7d86a0a2.jpg?v=1730943494","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/little-pharma-poems-9780822966722","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}