E36 Spring and All Poem XVI by William Carlos Williams

E36 Spring and All Poem XVI by William Carlos Williams

Description:
An immersive reading of Spring and All Poem XVI by William Carlos Williams with reflection on signs of illness, jaundice, liver failure, onomatopoeia and poetic apostrophe.

Website:
https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/

Work:
Spring and All, Poem XVI
By William Carlos Williams

O tongue
licking
the sore on
her netherlip

O toppled belly

O passionate cotton
stuck with
matted hair

elysian slobber
from her mouth
upon
the folded handkerchief

I can’t die

--moaned the old
jaundiced woman
rolling her
saffron eyeballs

I can’t die
I can’t die

References:

Spring and All:
https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/media/0881/Spring%2520and%2520All-WCW.pdf
or
https://www.tatteredcover.com/book/9781513283029

William Carlos Williams: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-carlos-williams

Poetic Apostrophe: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/apostrophe-literary-device-meaning

Baughn RE, Musher DM. Secondary syphilitic lesions. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2005 Jan;18(1):205-16.

Health Quality Ontario. In-home care for optimizing chronic disease management in the community: an evidence-based analysis. Ont Health Technol Assess Ser. 2013 Sep 1;13(5):1-65.

NB Tattered Cover is a local Denver bookstore

E35 A Field of Trilliums by Lori-Anne Noyahr

Description:
An immersive reading of A Field of Trilliums by Lori-Anne Noyahr first published in Ars Medica in 2023 with reflection on brain death, anesthesia, liminality and sounds.

Website:
https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/

Work:
Noyahr, L.-A. (2023). A Field of Trilliums. Ars Medica, 17(2), 3 pp. Retrieved from https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/2131

References:

De Georgia MA. History of brain death as death: 1968 to the present. J Crit Care. 2014 Aug;29(4):673-8.

E34 Sippokni Sia by Winnie Lewis Gravitt

Description:
An immersive reading of Sippokni Sia by Winnie Lewis Gravitt with reflection on the Choctaw Indian Tribe, code switching, aging and the grandmother effect.

Website:
https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/

Work:
Sippokni Sia
Winnie Lewis Gravitt

I am old, Sippokni sia.
Before my eyes run many years,
Like panting runners in a race.
Like a weary runner, the years lag;
Eyes grow dim, blind with wood smoke;
A handkerchief binds my head,
For I am old. Sippokni sia.

Hands, once quick to weave and spin;
Strong to fan the tanchi;
Fingers patient to shape dirt bowls;
Loving to sew hunting shirt;
Now, like oak twigs twisted.
I sit and rock my grandson.
I am old. Sippokni sia.

Feet swift as wind o’er young cane shoots;
Like stirring leaves in ta falla dance;
Slim like rabbits in leather shoes;
Now moves like winter snows,
Like melting snows on the Cavanaugh.
In the door I sit, my feet in spring water.
I am old. Sippokni sia.

Black like crow’s feather, my hair.
Long and straight like hanging rope;
My people proud and young.
Now like hickory ashes in my hair,
Like ashes of old camp fire in rain.
Much civilization bow my people;
Sorrow, grief and trouble sit like blackbirds on fence.
I am old. Sippokni sia hoke.

References:

Winnie Lewis Gravitt: https://poets.org/poet/winnie-lewis-gravitt

https://dictionary.choctawnation.com/word/

Coall DA, Hertwig R. Grandparental investment: past, present, and future. Behav Brain Sci. 2010 Feb;33(1):1-19; discussion 19-40.

E33 King Lear by William Shakespeare

Description:
An immersive reading of King Lear by William Shakespeare with reflection on dementia, storms and caregivers.

Website:
https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/

Work:

King Lear by William Shakespeare Act 3 Scene 1 lines 1-20

KENT Who’s there, besides foul weather?

GENTLEMAN One minded like the weather, most unquietly.

KENT I know you. Where’s the King?

GENTLEMAN

Contending with the fretful elements;

Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea

Or swell the curlèd waters ’bove the main,

That things might change or cease; tears his white hair,

Which the impetuous blasts with eyeless rage

Catch in their fury and make nothing of;

Strives in his little world of man to outscorn

The to-and-fro conflicting wind and rain.

This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,

The lion and the belly-pinchèd wolf

Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs

And bids what will take all.

KENT But who is with him?

GENTLEMAN

None but the Fool, who labors to outjest

His heart-struck injuries.


References:

King Lear (electronic): https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/king-lear/read/

King Lear (print): https://www.tatteredcover.com/book/9781501118111

NB: Tattered Cover is a local Denver bookstore

Ottilingam S. The psychiatry of King Lear. Indian J Psychiatry. 2007 Jan;49(1):52-5.

E32 Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag

An immersive reading of excerpts from Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag with reflection on cancer, tuberculosis, metaphors and myths.

References:

Illness as Metaphor: https://www.tatteredcover.com/book/9780312420130

NB: Tattered Cover is a local Denver bookstore

Curran J. Illness as Metaphor; AIDS and its Metaphors. BMJ. 2007 Sep 8;335(7618):517.

Clow B. Who's afraid of Susan Sontag? Or, the myths and metaphors of cancer reconsidered. Soc Hist Med. 2001 Aug;14(2):293-312.

Oransky I. Susan Sontag. Lancet. 2005 Feb 5-11;365(9458):468.

Diniz G, Korkes L, Tristão LS, Pelegrini R, Bellodi PL, Bernardo WM. The effects of gratitude interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Einstein (Sao Paulo). 2023 Aug 11;21:eRW0371.

Boggiss AL, Consedine NS, Brenton-Peters JM, Hofman PL, Serlachius AS. A systematic review of gratitude interventions: Effects on physical health and health behaviors. J Psychosom Res. 2020 Aug;135:110165. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2020.110165.