{"product_id":"harris-colleen-s-pain-scalepb","title":"[03\/23\/27] Harris, Colleen S.: Pain Scale","description":"\u003cp\u003eCynren Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 23, 2027\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePain Scale\u003c\/i\u003e, pain is not an event but a recurrence--an aftershock that reshapes the body, memory, and the contours of a life. These poems move through a body that will not fully recover, a childhood that cannot be returned to, and a marriage that has ended but not disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the language of medicine, myth, and domestic life, Colleen S. Harris traces what persists: fatigue, inflammation, grief, desire. Doctors' offices and quiet rooms become sites of reckoning, where the body is both battleground and archive. Endurance here is neither heroic nor redemptive--it is simply necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePain Scale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eattends to what remains: the altered self, the changed home, the heat still held beneath the surface. It is a meditation on living with what does not heal cleanly, and on learning how to stand inside that knowledge without looking away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45361789960215,"sku":"9781947976900","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/61hO4ik100L._SL1500.jpg?v=1791063182","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/harris-colleen-s-pain-scalepb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}