Rebecca’s Lehmann’s The Sweating Sickness contains wide-ranging topics—the suicide of an abusive ex, parenting young children, fairytales, reproductive rights, domestic violence, ghost stories, ancient myth—all set to the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both personal and political, these poems interrogate how we grieve, what it means to be a woman in post-Roe America, and how private and public ghosts can come back to haunt us. Surrealist, maximalist, formal, and with an ear to the underworld, The Sweating Sickness spins the reader into an eco-fabulist wonderland, where anything can happen, and does.
- ISBN10 0822967383
- ISBN13 9780822967385
- Publish Date 11 February 2025
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 96
- Language English