Sightline books : the Iowa series in literary nonfiction
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In a series of linked lyric essays, Detailing Trauma explores the many types of wounds from which the human body and spirit may suffer-and heal. Zwartjes's beautifully crafted poetic prose humanizes the technical descriptions of medical conditions and illuminates the scientific understanding of emotional states
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After doing her MFA in poetry at the University of Arizona and teaching English and creative writing there for six years, Arianne Zwartjes is now in northern New Mexico serving as the director of the wilderness program at the United World College. She continues to teach for the Wilderness Medicine Institute as well as for the National Outdoor Leadership School. Her previous works include Disem (body), The Surfacing of Excess, and (Stitched) A Surface Opens: Essays. Book jacket