Pain Studies by Lisa Olstein

Pain Studies

Lisa Olstein

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nonfiction essays health memoir reflective medium-paced
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In this extended lyric essay, a poet mines her lifelong experience with migraines to deliver a marvelously idiosyncratic cultural history of pain--how we experience, express, treat, and mistreat it. Her sources range from the trial of Joan of Arc ...

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Moods

reflective 77%
challenging 44%
informative 44%
emotional 22%
mysterious 11%
relaxing 11%
sad 11%
tense 11%

Pace

slow 60%
medium 40%

Average rating

3.34

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