The Sweating Sickness: Poems

Rebecca Lehmann's The Sweating Sickness contains wide-ranging topics--the suicide of an abusive ex, parenting young children, fairy tales, reproductive rights, domestic violence, ghost stories, ancient myth--all set to the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both personal and political, these poems interrogate how we grieve, what it means to be a woman in post-Roe America, and how private and public ghosts can come back to haunt us. Surrealist, maximalist, formal, and with an ear to the underworld, The Sweating Sickness spins the reader into an eco-fabulist wonderland, where anything can happen, and does.

Author: Rebecca Lehmann
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 02/11/2025
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.04w x 0.35d
ISBN13: 9780822967385
ISBN10: 0822967383
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | General

About the Author
Rebecca Lehmann is the author of the poetry collections Ringer, winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and Between the Crackups. Her writing has been featured in the American Poetry Review, the Threepenny Review, NPR's the Slowdown, and other venues. Her debut novel, The Beheading Game, is forthcoming from Crown Publishing. Originally from Door County, Wisconsin, Lehmann teaches creative writing at Saint Mary's College in Indiana and is the founding editor of Couplet Poetry.