Chapter 19 Max Ritvo’s Precision Poetry

This essay reads Max Ritvo’s poetry through a chronology of precision biomedicine: imaging, diagnosis, and treatment. Ritvo’s construction of a patient-consumer avatar in his poetry reflects his position at a biomedical frontier, while poetic form becomes a way of retrieving bodies from a logic of s...

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Hovedforfatter: Choksey, Lara
Format: Online
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Springer Nature 2022
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Online adgang:https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56688
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Summary:This essay reads Max Ritvo’s poetry through a chronology of precision biomedicine: imaging, diagnosis, and treatment. Ritvo’s construction of a patient-consumer avatar in his poetry reflects his position at a biomedical frontier, while poetic form becomes a way of retrieving bodies from a logic of substitution and surrogacy.