{"product_id":"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\n\n\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 \n\n\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","brand":"Nisha Patel (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Arsenal Pulp Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-04-02","offer_id":44652753617151,"sku":"9781551529455","price":21.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_cbc66c7d-b133-4508-9a89-3e22be4ebd70.jpg?v=1704316342","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781551529455","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}