· In Surgical Wing, surrealistic poems visit an experimental hospital ward, manifesting visions of winged angels and medical tests, as we bear witness to a doctor’s’ meddling and miracles. Robertson’s poems challenge the internal and external metamorphoses of the human condition and the juxtaposition between death and life by personifying the soul through images of www.doorway.ru: Alice James Books. · In Surgical Wing, surrealistic poems visit an experimental hospital ward, manifesting visions of winged angels and medical tests, as we bear witness to a doctor's' meddling and miracles. Robertson's poems challenge the internal and external metamorphoses of the human condition and the juxtaposition between death and life by personifying the soul through images of birds. Surgical Wing is a soaring debut poetry collection by poet Kristin Robertson. The poems blend avian imagery from folktale, myth, and natural history with the human body, illness, and heartbreak. Details Surgical wing FB2. The wing in the title comes to symbolize the wings of transcendence, of the mind's desire to soar above bodily pain.5/5(8).
Kristin Robertson is the author of Surgical Wing (Alice James Books, ). Her poetry appears in Ploughshares, Southern Review, Threepenny Review, Gettysburg Review, and Harvard Review, among other journals. She teaches at Tennessee Wesleyan University. I never strolled those curled-wing castles or warmed on my tongue melon bread she had tucked inside her purse from that morning's panya. I wasn't on that sidewalk— Kristin Robertson. Created Date: 5/11/ PM. Kristin Robertson's poetry collection Surgical Wing tells a narrative heavy with illness, grieving, and healing. The speaker suffers from wounds that life has given to her and wishes to discover her own wings. In poems such as "Rules of Surgery" and "Clinical Trial: Human with Wings," pain is evident in the way she lives.
In Surgical Wing, surrealistic poems visit an experimental hospital ward, manifesting visions of winged angels and medical tests, as we bear witness to a doctor's' meddling and miracles. Robertson's poems challenge the internal and external metamorphoses of the human condition and the juxtaposition between death and life by personifying the soul through images of birds. In Surgical Wing, surrealistic poems visit an experimental hospital ward, manifesting visions of winged angels and medical tests, as we bear witness to a doctor’s’ meddling and miracles. Robertson’s poems challenge the internal and external metamorphoses of the human condition and the juxtaposition between death and life by personifying the soul through images of birds. Poems by Kristin Robertson. Alice James Books, May $; pg. ISBN: Kristin Robertson’s poetry collection Surgical Wing tells a narrative heavy with illness, grieving, and healing. The speaker suffers from wounds that life has given to her and wishes to discover her own wings. In poems such as “Rules of Surgery” and “Clinical Trial: Human with Wings,” pain is evident in the way she lives.
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