Product Details. In The Cancer Journals Audre Lorde wrote, ‘I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilise into yet another silence, not to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience, openly acknowledged and examined.’. Founded on this same principle, The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes was written in the three months following Dutch writer Lieke . The Following Scan Will Last Four Minutes. By Lieke Marsman. Translated by Sophie Collins. Before you sink away. into the morphinesweet unreality of the everyday. we would like to say something. about those spasms and fasciculations of yours. as well as that bump on your back. For years you have no doubt been googling every freckle. Het is Felle kleuren bestaan alleen nog maar in de. natuur. niet in de schappen van de Xenos. Je mag zelf een ei bij het cakemeel doen. om je een goede huisvrouw te It is Bright colours exist only in nature. do not yet fill the aisles of Xenos. You can add an egg to the cake mix. to make yourself feel like a good housewife. Somewhere on the .
A work of poetry, social criticism and autobiography, The Following Scan is an honest and dryly comic account of a period in the author's life that elides pretension in search of autonomy and See details and exclusions - The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes - Lieke Marsman. Elsewhere, the individual's interest is swept up into gender politics, multiculturalism, reality TV shows, upscale housing developments and the [ ] unlike, for example, Lieke Marsman's recent The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes (Pavilion Poetry, - discussed here). Lieke Marsman's very personal collection The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes was translated from Dutch by Sophie Collins, and published last April Lieke Marsman (LM) - 'I like the poem 'Treats' best, as it was the first thing I wrote since being ill that I wrote in the kind of writing-rush that writing.
In addition to accounts of their personal experiences, both books provide an analysis of the status of cancer and cancer patients in society, an approach Marsman also adopts. The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes is not merely introspective, it is also a plea to look around and assume one’s social responsibility in a sick society. This essay is about much more than just a young woman struggling with cancer, it addresses the meaning and consequences of illness in our modern neoliberal. The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes Lieke Marsman and Translated by Sophie Collins. Liverpool University Press. Pavilion Poetry LUP. Exceptional poetry that sheds light on Lieke Marsman's diagnosis, events and thoughts on having bone cancer; Translated by the poet Sophie Collins; Also looks at society, political class and the writer's environment. On returning north to Amsterdam from a writer’s residency in the south of Holland, poet and novelist Lieke Marsman received grave news: the shoulder pain that had been bothering her for years, and that had recently become unbearable, was found to have been caused by a malignant tumour the sizeof a grapefruit; it was chondrosarcoma, [ ].
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