"This poem is from my book "The Animal Is Chemical," which includes a series of erasures based on pharmaceutical package inserts from medications I and my family had recently consumed. I was a medical editor for several years and was fascinated by this idea that language could harm or heal. I challenged myself to take the hard, impenetrable language of package inserts and turn them into poems in order to find language a care—that might heal, inform, warn, or simply keep readers company in a moment of need."
Hadara Bar-Nadav on [I am altered, terminal, skeletal] |
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