Wound Archive

Wound Archive is a collection of minimalist poems that archives the wound left by the concurrent ending of a relationship and the beginning of a chronic invisible illness. These poems comprise a fragmented archive in which woundedness turns language?figuratively and at times formally?upside down. The symbol of the wound recurs throughout, punctuating the ways both heartbreak and illness are experienced in the body. While these poems are often rooted in the body? mouths, tongues, legs?they also employ the corporeal to reach for the incorporeal?god, ghosts, healing. This tender text articulates the capacity of brevity to hold the expansiveness of ache.