The Lyme Letters - Poems

The Lyme Letters, the twenty-seventh winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry, is epistolary verse that spells out a memoir.

About the author

C. R. Grimmer, who also goes by Chelsea Grimmer and uses she/her and they/them pronouns interchangeably, is a poet, scholar, and Lecturer and Assistant Director of Digital Pedagogy in the Department of English at the University of Washington (UW) Seattle and Bothell campuses. They received their Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies at the UW with support from The Simpson Center for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Public Humanities Fellowship. Grimmer created and hosts The Poetry Vlog (TPV): a YouTube and Podcast Teaching Channel dedicated to social justice coalitions through arts dialogue. Grimmer's poems and published articles can be found in numerous poetry and literary journals. Their chapbook O-(ezekiel's wife) is available from GASHER Journal and Press. For more information, visit crgrimmer.com.

Summary

R, a non-binary femme character, narrates their experience of disease and recovery through recurrent letters to doctors, pets, family members, lovers, and a "Master". R also explores the paradoxical experiences of queer non-reproductivity, chronic illness and disability, and the healing that can be found in the liminal spaces between.

Product details

• Authors: C R Grimmer, C. R. Grimmer, C.R. Grimmer
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781682830758
• ISBN: 978-1-68283-075-8
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 193 mm x 236 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Series: Walt McDonald First-Book Poetr; Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General