InCrohnicPurcell documents the violences of medicalization but also locates within its cruelties a poetics of crip survival that never defaults to a toxically positive hyperindependent resilience Convalescence Purcell reveals is a painful gift of crip time lived from the hospital bed and one that reorients our values around what it really means to live in this temporary structure called a bodymind a life Travis Chi Wing Lau author ofVagariesandWhats Left Is Tender

Jason PurcellsCrohnicis a marvel The poems in this book are as exquisite as the sick body in all its own ways of knowing Even in their most medicalized state Purcell resists medicalizations definition of self instead they write their body into a new ecosystem with wondrous striking clarityCrohnicis a love poem to a self that forges its own rebirth Tea Gerbeza author ofHow I Bend Into More

Jason Purcell has woven together an engrossing narrative and mastery of language that had me wanting more reaching for a spoiled horizon I will return to this book over and over again to admire its form and flow This is a timeless work that will remain important to queer prairie literature for generations Emily Riddle author ofThe Big Meltwinner of the Griffin Poetry Canadian First Book Prize