
– Anne Carson, “Despite Her Pain, Another Day”
from Blood Math by Peggy Phelan and Adrian Heathfield
from The Pain Scale by Eula Biss
Epigraph quoting Lisa Robertson | Joni Murphy | Double Teenage
June Jordan | Who Look at Me
Angela Carter | Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest | Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
Lisa Robertson | [It was Jessica Grim the American poet…]
Autumn Royal | She Woke & Rose
Lisa Robertson | [Sometimes I want a corset like…]
Nina Auerbach | Our Vampires, Ourselves


The Black Hole of Trauma by Bessel A. Van der Kolk: and Alexander C. McFarlane

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

Ariel Glucklich from Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul

Ariel Glucklich from Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul