Chapter 19 Max Ritvo's Precision Poetry

This essay reads Max Ritvo's poetry through a chronology of precision biomedicine: imaging, diagnosis, and treatment. Ritvo's construction of a patient-consumer avatar in his poetry reflects his position at a biomedical frontier, while poetic form becomes a way of retrieving bodies from a...

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Main Author: Choksey, Lara (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer Nature 2020
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Summary:This essay reads Max Ritvo's poetry through a chronology of precision biomedicine: imaging, diagnosis, and treatment. Ritvo's construction of a patient-consumer avatar in his poetry reflects his position at a biomedical frontier, while poetic form becomes a way of retrieving bodies from a logic of substitution and surrogacy.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (16 p.)
ISBN:978-3-030-48244-2_19
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Access:Open Access