After a Short Illness: A Meditation on Aphasia

After a Short Illness is John Whitehouse's meditation on aphasia, written from the aftermath of a stroke that almost severed his speech. The poems work in short, image-dense stanzas that measure the distance between talk and utterance, moving between hospital wards, a brother's death, and the task of giving names to animals. Whitehouse finds company among others estranged from language, Zazetsky writing his way back from a head wound and Baudelaire silenced in an asylum, and what accumulates is less lament than an account of language repossessed word by word.

Author: John Whitehouse
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Broken Sleep Books
Published: 09/30/2026
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.1lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.08d
ISBN: 9781918628159