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Poetry. Gay & Lesbian Studies. "Put whippets in your heart and let the rabbits breed. They will." Like still-wet lagomorphs crawling over each other in innate proximity, Peggy Munson's poems confine the reader "inside a lantern, buzzing at the headlights." Munson addresses illness, family, and the blood running through both with malleable tenacity. Noelle Kocot describes Munson's work as "free from a lot of the burden of contemporary poetry conventions, [existing] like a small island in the fiery sun, alone, yet willing to be utterly beautiful, utterly strange and utterly itself." PATHOGENESIS was a finalist or semifinalist for numerous prizes, including the Dorset Prize, the Carnegie-Mellon Poetry Series, the Beatrice Hawley Award, the Verse Prize, and the University of Wisconsin Pollack Prize. Munson is the author of the novel, ORIGAMI STRIPTEASE, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards.

Death, Rebirth
Four Deaths That Happened Daily	p. 1
Scientific Method	p. 5
Pale Light	p. 6
Twilight Rooms	p. 8
Making Buildings Out of Bodies	p. 10
End of Century Death	p. 11
To the Professor Who Received Many Accolades for Calling My Illness Hysteria	p. 12
The Professor Makes a Diagnosis	p. 14
Building the Wall of Forgetting	p. 16
The Body as a Burning Prairie
The Moon Burned a Scar on My Wrist	p. 21
Self: Ornithology: The Immune System	p. 22
The Alchemist's Daughter	p. 24
Sister: Serology: The Largest Organ Is Skin	p. 28
Swan Point Cemetery	p. 30
October	p. 30
April, when the rains caress their paramours of words	p. 31
May, the returning garden	p. 32
Grandfather: Theology: The Heart	p. 35
Sleeping on the Edge of the Prairie	p. 37
Sleeping on the Edge of the Prairie II	p. 39
Mother: Musicology: Respiration	p. 43
Leaves	p. 45
Mother: Astrology: The Brain	p. 47
On the Day I Saw a Hundred Crows	p. 49
Grandmother: Geography: The Spine	p. 51
Father: Discography: Oral History	p. 53
Immunity	p. 55
Family: Parapsychology: The Effects of Human Growth Hormone	p. 57
The Brain Saw a Patina of Words
Short List of Common Pesticides	p. 61
Lindane	p. 61
N, N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET)	p. 62
Carbamate insecticides	p. 62
Near Plymouth Rock, the Broken Brain	p. 64
What Sonar Means When You Are Distant	p. 66
Square Dance on the Loss of Words	p. 72
The best pickers cannot stop the spread of loss	p. 72
Music in a yard full of dogs	p. 73
These Words, Like Small Eyes Witnessing	p. 75
Speedy Inexpensive Chaos Theory Poem	p. 77
About Short Term Memory Loss
Pathogenesis
[Listening to Nirvana and Hole]	p. 83
[So much happened in this place]	p. 86
[I dragged my bed on the subway]	p. 88
[Amidst succulents and geckos]	p. 90
[There is a place past exhaustion]	p. 92
[One night I dream about a lost love]	p. 94
[If: every body is a small planet spinning]	p. 97
[The first night I took the pills]	p. 101
[My skin opens up]	p. 103
Epilogue	p. 106
Notes	p. 109
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