title: Articulations: The Body and Illness in Poetry
author:  Jon Mukand 
description: Poetry anthologies are legion, and a great many of them are satisfying, but it's something to crow about when, reading one of them, you find not just splendid work by names you've never heard of--that's a perennial pleasure afforded by any form of literature--but splendid work by poets whose own books have displeased or bored you, poems so good they make you question your judgment. In this big book full of strictly contemporary poems, you can make such discoveries over and over, but it doesn't challenge your judgment; rather, it confirms the excellence of editor Mukand's. Physician and poet himself, he's been collecting poems on medicine for quite some time (an earlier, shorter incarnation of this book was Sutured Words</i> [1987]). He's selected with patients, patients' friends and family members, health-care workers, and health caregivers all in mind, and separate sections of the anthology are devoted to poems reflecting the experiences and views of members of each group. Indeed, other sections are full of the perspectives of even finer groupings--"Women: Flowers of Ether in My Hair," for example, also "Disability: Their Lockstep Tight as Lilac Buds." Perhaps the best that can be said of the book is that there really is something in here for everyone, that poetry lovers and those who haven't read a poem since high school will find words here that will illuminate them, shake them, and comfort them. <i>Ray Olson</i>
zlib_text: #  Job’s Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising
  
  This book focuses on the expressions used to describe Job’s body in pain and
  on the reactions of his friends to explore the moral and social world
  reflected in the language and the values that their speeches betray.
  
  A key contribution of this monograph is to highlight how the perspective of
  illness as retribution is powerfully refuted in Job’s speeches and, in
  particular, to show how this is achieved through comedy. Comedy in Job is a
  powerful weapon used to expose and ridicule the idea of retribution. Rejecting
  the approach of retrospective diagnosis, this monograph carefully analyses the
  expression of pain in Job, focusing specifically on somatic language used in
  the deity attack metaphors, in the deity surveillance metaphors, and in the
  language connected to the body and social status. These metaphors are analysed
  in a comparative way using research from medical anthropology and sociology
  which focuses on illness narratives and