{"product_id":"the-following-scan-will-last-five-minutes-9781786942135","title":"The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoetry Book Society Summer Choice, Recommended Translation 2019. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Cancer Journals \u003c\/i\u003eAudre Lorde wrote, 'I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilise into yet another silence, not to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience, openly acknowledged and examined.' Founded on this same principle, \u003ci\u003eThe Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes\u003c\/i\u003e was written in the three months following Dutch writer Lieke Marsman's cancer diagnosis. A series of short poems anchored by an essay that speaks directly to Lorde's journal entries and personal reflections on cancer, Marsman considers, among other things, the state of contemporary Dutch politics and - via Susan Sontag's\u003ci\u003e Illness as Metaphor \u003c\/i\u003e- the rhetoric surrounding her disease. A work of poetry, social criticism and autobiography, \u003ci\u003eThe Following Scan \u003c\/i\u003eis an honest and dryly comic account of a period in the author's life that elides pretension in search of autonomy and self-knowledge. Beautifully translated by the poet Sophie Collins, the book also includes a translator's note in the form of a letter to her author and friend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lieke Marsman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pavilion Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Pavilion Poetry Lup\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 62\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.2lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.20h x 4.30w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781786942135","brand":"Pavilion Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42948517494921,"sku":"9781786942135","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_6ef63714-fddf-4a02-97f0-5ed4b356d0a6.jpg?v=1725342402","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-following-scan-will-last-five-minutes-9781786942135","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}