10/13/2023 0 Comments The undying![]() ![]() The pink ribbon, that ubiquitous emblem of breast cancer awareness, has long been an object of controversy and derision, but the poet and essayist Anne Boyer doesn't just pull it loose, unfastening its dainty loop she feeds it through a shredder and lights it on fire, incinerating its remains. A genre-bending memoir in the tradition of The Argonauts, The Undying will break your heart, make you angry enough to spit, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally, perversely glorious. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of ”pink ribbon culture” while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker, Susan Sontag, and others. A twenty-first-century Illness as Metaphor, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival, The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, corporate lies, John Donne, pro-pain ”dolorists,” the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders of capitalism. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. The Undying is an outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique." -Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka School A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. By demonstrating how her utterly specific experience is also irreducibly social, she opens up new spaces for thinking and feeling together. ![]() In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer,' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself." -Sally Rooney, author of Normal People "Anne Boyer’s radically unsentimental account of cancer and the 'carcinogenosphere' obliterates cliche. WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION " The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. Para obtener más información sobre cómo y para qué fines Amazon utiliza la información personal (como el historial de pedidos de Amazon Store), visita nuestro Aviso de privacidad. Para ello, visita Preferencias de cookies, tal y como se describe en el Aviso de cookies. Puedes cambiar de opinión en cualquier momento. Haz clic en “Personalizar cookies” para rechazar estas cookies, tomar decisiones más detalladas u obtener más información. Estos terceros utilizan cookies para mostrar y medir anuncios personalizados, generar información sobre la audiencia, y desarrollar y mejorar los productos. Esto incluye el uso de cookies propias y de terceros que almacenan o acceden a información estándar del dispositivo, como un identificador único. ![]() Si estás de acuerdo, también utilizaremos las cookies para complementar tu experiencia de compra en las tiendas de Amazon, tal y como se describe en nuestro Aviso de cookies. También utilizamos estas cookies para entender cómo utilizan los clientes nuestros servicios (por ejemplo, mediante la medición de las visitas al sitio web) con el fin de poder realizar mejoras. Utilizamos cookies y herramientas similares que son necesarias para permitirte comprar, mejorar tus experiencias de compra y proporcionar nuestros servicios, según se detalla en nuestro Aviso de cookies. ![]()
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