Ian Kinney - Air Salt: A Trauma Mémoire as a Result of the Fall

Air Salt Air Salt A Trauma Mmoire as a Result of the Fall ian kinney Brave & Brilliant Series ISSN 2371-7238 (Print) ISSN 2371-7246 (Online) 2019 Ian Kinney University of Calgary Press 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, Alberta Canada T2N 1N4 press.ucalgary.ca This book is available as an ebook. The publisher should be contacted for any use which falls outside the terms of that license. Ian Kinneys first book of poetry, Air Salt: a Trauma Mmoire as a Result of the Fall , shall serve as a mmoir/e, as a memory, as a 17(1) of Trauma unwritten to fold. Names, characters, narratives, places, and events that appear in this work are not merely products of the authors imagination, but also serve as figures in the authors post-traumatic life-writing process. In Air Salt , Kinney collects and culls an assemblage of found texts related to his hospitalization and rehabilitation from a 7 storey fall. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: Air salt : a trauma mmoire as a result of the fall / Ian Kinney.

Names: Kinney, Ian, author. Series: Brave & brilliant series ; no. 12. Description: Series statement: Brave & brilliant series, 2371-7238 ; no. 12 Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 2019011617X | Canadiana (ebook) 20190116196 | ISBN 9781773851129 (softcover) | ISBN 9781773851136 (PDF) | ISBN 9781773851143 (EPUB) | ISBN 9781773851150 (Kindle) Classification: LCC PS8621.I5764 A47 2019 | DDC C811/.6dc23 The University of Calgary Press acknowledges the support of the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Media Fund for our publications. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada.

We acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. Editing by Helen Hajnoczky Cover image: Colourbox 18825075 Cover design, page design, and typesetting by Melina Cusano Ebook conversion by Human Powered Design

under the cadaverous pulp of medicine, consider poetry. some of these poems come directly from reading these notes. this tissues decomposure quickens. this tissues decomposure quickens.

I do not have enough skins to peal. does this skin stretch? how much more does it itch? to the nerve mostly, and in the muscles spasm. does it sting? and how many more breaths like you can you take before it hurts? could you rate it on a scale from one to ten? this bone breaded decay. how much more virulent and saturated with hues, unprepared to fester in that broken sinew, snared in pain w/ weight of all fours, chained together to the floor. how many more poems can I breathe w/ you? & how much more will I yawn into the bit? & for what purpose & how much longer does this ache invite access? & how much more do you see the word give the conscious distinction of things? limina - under the pulp of - the poem - read - a body - many poems - yawn into -purpose &- ache - &how do you see - the distinction?

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Order is restraint & & gag & & move to move Fig. 8 Its ok we love you we want you out of here focus. Its ok it will be ok focus focus

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