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""Jason Purcell has woven together an engrossing narrative and mastery of language that had me wanting more, reaching for a 'spoiled horizon.' I will return to this book over and over again to admire its form and flow. This is a timeless work that will remain important to queer prairie literature for generations."" --Emily Riddle, author of The Big Melt, winner of the Griffin Poetry Canadian First Book Prize ""In Crohnic, Purcell documents the violences of medicalization but also locates within its cruelties a poetics of crip survival that never defaults to a toxically positive, hyperindependent 'resilience.' Convalescence, Purcell reveals, is a painful gift of crip time lived from the hospital bed and one that reorients our values around what it really means to 'live in this temporary structure' called a bodymind, a life."" --Travis Chi Wing Lau, author of Vagaries and What's Left Is Tender ""Jason Purcell's Crohnic is a marvel. The poems in this book are as exquisite as the sick body in all its 'own ways of knowing.' Even in their most medicalized state, Purcell resists medicalization's definition of self; instead, they write their body into a new ecosystem with wondrous, striking clarity. Crohnic is a love poem to a self that forges its own rebirth."" --Tea Gerbeza, author of How I Bend Into More

""Jason Purcell has woven together an engrossing narrative and mastery of language that had me wanting more, reaching for a 'spoiled horizon.' I will return to this book over and over again to admire its form and flow. This is a timeless work that will remain important to queer prairie literature for generations."" --Emily Riddle, author of The Big Melt, winner of the Griffin Poetry Canadian First Book Prize ""In Crohnic, Purcell documents the violences of medicalization but also locates within its cruelties a poetics of crip survival that never defaults to a toxically positive, hyperindependent 'resilience.' Convalescence, Purcell reveals, is a painful gift of crip time lived from the hospital bed and one that reorients our values around what it really means to 'live in this temporary structure' called a bodymind, a life."" --Travis Chi Wing Lau, author of Vagaries and What's Left Is Tender ""Jason Purcell's Crohnic is a marvel. The poems in this book are as exquisite as the sick body, in all its 'own ways of knowing.' Even in their most medicalized state, Purcell resists medicalization's definition of self; instead, they write their body into a new ecosystem with wondrous, striking clarity. Crohnic is a love poem to a self that forges its own rebirth."" --Tea Gerbeza, author of How I Bend Into More

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Jason Purcell (they/them) is a writer and musician from amiskwacwskahikan, Treaty 6 (Edmonton, Canada). They are the author of the poetry collections Swollening (Arsenal Pulp Press) and A Place More Hospitable (Anstruther Press). They are a PhD student in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.

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