{"product_id":"the-following-scan-will-last-five-minutes-paperback","title":"The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLieke Marsman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSophie Collins\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLieke Marsman published her first poetry volume (Things That I Tell Myself) in 2010 when she was only twenty years old, and promptly won three poetry prizes. Her first novel (The Opposite of A Human Being), in which she intertwined poetry and prose to examine climate change and our attitudes towards it, was published in 2017. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSophie Collins grew up in Bergen, North Holland, and now lives in Edinburgh. She is co-editor of tender, an online arts quarterly, and editor of Currently \u0026amp; Emotion (Test Centre, 2016), an anthology of contemporary poetry translations. small white monkeys, a text on self-expression, self-help and shame, was published by Book Works in November 2017 as part of a commissioned residency at Glasgow Women's Library. Her debut collection of poems Who Is Mary Sue? was published by Faber \u0026amp; Faber in 2018.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 62\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.2 x 4.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 30, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42726052724799,"sku":"9781786942135","price":32.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/b9f575b1edb9b8eea0e1494df35c7106.webp?v=1765109051","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-following-scan-will-last-five-minutes-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}