Scars

<p>If scars are the memory of pain then this volume is a body of those memories recollected as stories--stories as compelling as vivid as dramatic as the thing the scar itself. <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-</span><strong>Lisa Sanders Yale School of Medicine the doctor behind <em>House M.D.</em> and <em>New York Times</em> Diagnosis Columnist</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Each voice seeks to make sense of visible tactile memories of pain claiming scars as essential to the person they have become. Collectively these voices give testimony to the connection between self-expression and resilience. <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-</span><strong>Arthur W. Frank <em>The Wounded Storyteller </em>and <em>At the Will of the Body</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><em>Scars: An Anthology</em> examines the range and nuance of experience related to scars of the body. The collection assembles the writings of activists academics parents patients performance artists physicians poets siblings spouses students and writers. Through various genres and mediums-personal narratives interviews poems academic essays images a review and a performance script-contributors address self-mutilation creating art gender confirmation surgery cancer birth brain injury war coming of age pain and love all focusing on the central question of what it means to live with physical scars.</p><p>Renowned contributors include photographer and SCAR Project founder David Jay AWP Award winning author Jill Christman Piedmont Laureate Scott Huler physician/faminist activist/author Dr. Sayantani DasGupta author Maurice Carlos Ruffin comedian Kelli Dunham disability scholar and performer Jim Ferris Hudson Valley artist Lorrie Fredette and many more. Scars: An Anthology has been part of panels at Columbia University The Arkansas Literary Festival The Louisiana Book Festival and elsewhere. </p>