Bibliograph

Constellations, reflections from life, Sinéad Gleeson

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Label

Constellations, reflections from life, Sinéad Gleeson

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Constellations

Oclc number

1110155293

Responsibility statement

Sinéad Gleeson

Sub title

reflections from life

Summary

"For fans of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, Sinéad Gleeson's essays chronicle-in crystalline, tender, powerful prose-life in a body, as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood, and love of all kinds"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Blue Hills and Chalk Bones -- Hair -- Our Mutual Friend -- 60,000 Miles of Blood -- On the Atomic Nature of Trimesters -- Panopticon: Hospital Visions -- The Moons of Motherhood -- The Haunted Haunting Women -- Where Does It Hurt? : Twenty stories based on the McGill pain index -- A Wound Gives Off Its Own Light -- The Adventure Narrative -- Twelve Stories of Bodily Autonomy (for the twelve women a day who leave) -- Second Mother -- A Non-Letter to My Daughter (named for a warrior queen)

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