# Swollening

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- Book: [Swollening](https://www.bookquiver.com/jason-purcell/swollening) ([Swollening.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jason-purcell/swollening.md))
- Authors: [Jason Purcell](https://www.bookquiver.com/jason-purcell)
- Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
- ISBN: 978-15-5152-885-4
- Pages: 96
- Published: 2022-05-26
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Part poetic experiment and part memoir, Swollening attempts to diagnose what has been undiagnosable, tracing an uneven path from a lifetime of swallowing bad feelings - homophobia in its external and internalised manifestations, heteronormativity, anxiety surrounding desire, aversion to sex - to a body in revolt. In poems that speak using the grammar and logics of sickness, Purcell offers a dizzying collision of word and image that is the language of pain alongside the banality of living on.