TY  - GEN
T1  - Mend poems
T2  - Book collections on Project MUSE.
A1  - Maples, Kwoya Fagin, 1982-
LA  - English
PP  - Lexington, Kentucky
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1052507652
AB  - The inventor of the speculum, J. Marion Sims, is celebrated as the "father of modern gynecology," and a memorial at his birthplace honors "his service to suffering women, empress and slave alike." These tributes whitewash the fact that Sims achieved his surgical breakthroughs by experimenting on eleven enslaved African American women. Lent to Sims by their owners, these women were forced to undergo operations without their consent. Today, the names of all but three of these women are lost.In Mend: Poems, Kwoya Fagin Maples gives voice to the enslaved women named in Sims's autobiography: Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy. In poems exploring imagined memories and experiences relayed from hospital beds, the speakers challenge Sims's lies, mourn their trampled dignity, name their suffering in spirit, and speak of their bodies as "bruised fruit." At the same time, they are more than his victims, and the poems celebrate their humanity, their feelings, their memories, and their selves. A finalist for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, this debut collection illuminates a complex and disturbing chapter of the African American experience.
CN  - PS3613.A665 A6 2018eb
SN  - 9780813176284
SN  - 081317628X
SN  - 9780813176277
SN  - 0813176271
KW  - American poetry : 21st century.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
KW  - American poetry
KW  - 2000-2099
KW  - Electronic books.
ER  -