Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris

Standing in the Forest of Being Alive

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Standing in the Forest of Being Alive

Alice James Books

Standing in the Forest of Being Alive

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Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as the narrator is diagnosed and treated for breast cancer at the age of thirty-six during a time of pandemic and political upheaval. With humor and honesty, the book portrays both the pleasures and the horrors of the lover, the citizen, and the medical subject. How can we find, in the midst of hell, what isn't hell? And whom can we tell how much we want to live? An intimate, hilarious and devastating look into some of the most private moments of a life--even if they happen to occur in a medical office with six strangers looking on. This book is for anyone who's ever asked how to live in the face of suffering, and doesn't expect an easy answer. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive looks unflinchingly at painful realities, posing the question "What isn't hell?" and finds the answer in a powerful eros, letting a loved one pull laughter out of the narrator's reluctant mouth like a "redvioletcerulean handkerchief."
Book Details
Publisher:
Alice James Books
ISBN:
9781948579322
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
100
Authors:
Katie Farris
Published Date:
2023-04-04
Language:
English
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About Katie Farris

A poet and translator, Katie Farris earned her MFA from Brown University and is an associate professor of creative writing at Princeton University. She wrote boysgirls (Tupelo Press, 2019) and the memoir-in-poems Standing in the Forest of Being Alive (Alice James Books, 2023), which was shortlisted for the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize and named to Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books of 2023. Her chapbook A Net to Catch My Body in Its Weaving won the 2021 Chad Walsh Poetry Award from Beloit Poetry Journal. She has received the Pushcart Prize and the Anne Halley Poetry Prize, and co-translates with the poet Ilya Kaminsky.

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