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Donald Hall Prize winner
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pandemic poetry
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Ringer
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suicide poetry
women poets
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- ISBN 9780822967385
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Feb 2025
- Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Rebecca’s Lehmann’s The Sweating Sickness contains wide-ranging topics—the suicide of an abusive ex, parenting young children, fairytales, reproductive rights, domestic violence, ghost stories, ancient myth—all set to the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both personal and political, these poems interrogate how we grieve, what it means to be a woman in post-Roe America, and how private and public ghosts can come back to haunt us. Surrealist, maximalist, formal, and with an ear to the underworld, The Sweating Sickness spins the reader into an eco-fabulist wonderland, where anything can happen, and does.
Rebecca Lehmann is the author of the poetry collections Ringer, winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and Between the Crackups. Her writing has been featured in the American Poetry Review,the Threepenny Review,NPR’s the Slowdown,and other venues. Her debut novel, The Beheading Game, is forthcoming from Crown Publishing.Originally from Door County, Wisconsin, Lehmann teaches creative writing at Saint Mary’s College in Indiana and is the founding editor of Couplet Poetry.
