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    Allodynia
    Allodynia
    Allodynia
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    Allodynia

    By Nisa Malli

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    Rooted in the indescribability and disembodiment of pain, Nisa Malli’s Allodynia looks outward to space and the future of humankind, as well as inward to the body. In “Pain Log”, a suite of body-horror poems, she explores illness as a haunting or possession: “At home, my stitches / undid themselves, fevers pet me // like a dog, my eyes opened / backwards. Sleep ghosted me // more than usual.” In “Ship’s Log,” a near-future speculative suite of poems, Malli turns to themes of alienness, artificial intelligence, and the impossibility of translation; danger, intimacy, and war; as well as the worlds we choose to build together. Allodynia is a highly anticipated poetic debut that more than fulfills the promise of its author’s bpNichol award winning chapbook Remitting.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPalimpsest Press
    Release dateApr 15, 2022
    ISBN9781990293078
    Allodynia
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    Nisa Malli

    Nisa Malli is a writer and a researcher, born in Winnipeg and currently living in Toronto. She holds a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Victoria and has completed residencies at the Banff Centre and Artscape Gibraltar Point. Her first chapbook, Remitting (Baseline Press), won the bpNichol Prize and her work has been nominated for a Rhysling Award and the Best of the Net Anthology.

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      Allodynia - Nisa Malli

      Pain Log

      Pain Log

      A wasp caught between screen doors // soaped eyes // permanently pulled hair // skinned everything but knees // what if a sunburn but inside // limbs the opposite of ambidextrous // pills forgotten then taken // taken then doubled // then forgotten // the bed // aflame the morning after // overextending // why must I be such a stubborn cannonball // barrelling despite myself?

      What You Have Heard Is True

      It will be easier if you sit

      outside yourself feet

      dangling off the diving board

      in the next room. In the instruction

      manual for what

      to do in case

      of fire you are the stick figure

      firmly closing doors

      to keep the flames

      from razing

      the whole house. Let yourself be

      the aura at a seance the half-gauzed

      after-image of light. The brain

      knows how to fight

      diplopia by suppressing

      one eye even

      divided it will find you

      and you are well

      versed in the sleight

      of hand needed to contain

      your own sundering.

      L’Hôpital Notre-Dame

      The angels of the triage station know you

      are waiting patiently to be admitted

      into their sanctum. They won’t judge you for slumping

      in the plastic waiting room chairs meant to hold one body at a time

      that doesn’t need holding up, for wearing nail polish that dulls

      the pulse oximeter suckling your finger, for mispronouncing

      the names of your possible causes. Sweet Miracle, they know

      you are a medical mystery, permitted to plead

      your case here many times over. Ahead of you: an axe-split

      kneecap, arrhythmias, the worst half of a bar fight,

      food poisoning, a suicide risk, second degree burns.

      The waiting room is eternal and atemporal. You have always

      been here. They have always been here. Here, everyone is always

      in the middle of an emergency, neither

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