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Ein wütendes Manifest gegen den Umgang mit Krankheit, ausgezeichnet mit dem wichtigsten amerikanischen Literaturpreis. Eine Woche vor ihrem 41. Geburtstag wird der preisgekrönten Dichterin Anne Boyer ein hoch aggressiver Brustkrebs diagnostiziert. Für die alleinerziehende Mutter, die sich von Scheck zu Scheck hangelt, ist diese katastrophale Erkrankung ein Anstoß, Sterblichkeit und die Geschlechterpolitiken von Krankheit neu zu denken. Boyer ...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020WINNER OF THE WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020FINALIST FOR THE PEN / JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD 2020'Profound and unforgettable' Sally Rooney'A classic . . . I have long thought of Boyer as a genius' Patricia Lockwood'An outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique' Ben Lerner'Some of the most perceptive and beautiful writing about illness and pain that I have ever read' Hari...

WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION"The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer, ' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself." -Sally Rooney, author of Normal People"Anne Boyer's radically unsent...

The author presents a fresh, fierce, and timely meditation on data, pain, time, and the limited capacity of literature to comprehend life and death in a sensate and vulnerable body.

Anne Boyer is a U.S. poet and essayist and, for Garments Against Women, the winner of the 2016 CLMP Firecracker Award, a 2018 Whiting Award and the inaugural 2018 Cy Twombly Award. Her other books include The Romance of Happy Workers (2008) and A Handbook of Disappointed Fate (2018). She is the Judith E. Wilson Fellow at Cambridge for 2018-2019. The Undying, a memoir of cancer treatment and its aftermath, is forthcoming from Penguin in August ...

Journalism and essays exploring the nature of art and fame

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Garments Against Women is a book of mostly lyric prose about the conditions that make literature almost impossible. It holds a life story without a life, a lie spread across low-rent apartment complexes, dreamscapes, and information networks, tangled in chronology, landing in a heap of the future impossible. Available form-like garments and literature-are made of the materials of history, of the hours of women's and children's lives, but they ...

An exciting new American poet harvests fields of sound from the seeds of her bucolic vocabulary.