PreviewsJason Purcell
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Crohnic
Jason Purcell
Charting two years of treatment for Crohn’s disease, these poems explore the landscape of a medicated life. The speaker connects deeply with the forest and rivers, learning from the cycles of life, most particularly the winter, a time of rest and waiting, and draws parallels between the degradation of the land and of the body.
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Swollening
Jason Purcell
Purcell’s debut collection takes an unflinching and tender look at the queer, sick body as a reaction to an ill world. After “gagging / on childhood” and revealing in powerful and specific imagery how “pain is what interferes,” the speaker looks toward a bleak future, finding the care and laughter that can give rise to hope.
