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The Wound Learned Latin: A Medical Poetry Collection
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 31 2026
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.15 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Pain does not disappear. It translates.
In The Wound Learned Latin, the cold, clinical language of medicine is turned into something sharp, intimate, and alive. Written from the unique perspective of a multi-lingual writer who speaks six languages, this collection strips away medical detachment to map the anatomy of human suffering across five visceral stages:
Ectomy (Surgery) becomes loss.
Itis (Inflammation) becomes obsession.
Osis (Degeneration) becomes survival.
Plasia (Growth) becomes transformation.
Lysis (Breakdown) becomes release.
Here, the body is not just hurt, but it is recording everything. Each poem begins as a strict medical definition and opens into the boundaries of what is far harder to name: what was cut out, what stayed swollen, what changed shape, and what finally let go.
For readers of modern, emotionally raw poetry that is precise, haunting, and impossible to look away from, The Wound Learned Latin asks a profound question: When pain learns a language, what does it finally say?
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