Pathemata, Or, the Story of My Mouth ardent celebration of unbridled female

ardent celebration of unbridled female ambition in the work of Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath

a clever and inventive examination of some of basketball's most iconic players

and a scientific determination to find the poetic truth

Drawing from the diversity of her life as a campus minister

Pathemata, Or, the Story of My Mouth ardent celebration of unbridled female***Longlisted for the 2025 PEN Diamonstein Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay*** Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009's Bluets, Pathemata merges a pain diary chronicling a decade of jaw pain with dreams and dailies, eventually blurring the lines between embodied, unconscious, and everyday life. In scrupulously distilled prose, Pathemata offers