"The History of Gynecology" interrogates the brutal American history of reproductive health as propagated by apartheid doctor, Dr Marion Sims, during the 19th century. The instrument known as the speculum used during gynecological visits was created by Dr. Sims using enslaved women, Betsy, Anarcha, and Lucy, as test animals which caused vesicovaginal fistula and rectovaginal fistulas without the benefit of anesthesia.
Cynthia Parker-Ohene on "A History of Gynecology" |
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"Donika Kelly and Phillip B. Williams in Conversation" "I interpreted some of the work in the book as willfully enacting the messiness of memory, like what is the symbol and what is real, what is an image and what is an object, am I supposed to have an emotional connection with a passage or is it more there to decorate the poem to set a scene."
via BENNINGTON REVIEW |
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Dana Levin on Emily Kendal Frey's Lovability
"In Lovability, poem after poem seeks discernment against this agony, to untangle the sticky web of the imagined, the hoped for, the dreaded, the real, and encounter each unbraced. Perhaps this is the only project that matters. Perhaps it’s one of the most difficult things a person undergoes: the dismantling of dream, assumption, expectation, prejudice, in order to see clearly and honestly." |
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