Cadaver, Speak is a meditation on the human body, drawing largely from poet Marianne Boruch’s experiences in a life-drawing class, in art museums, and in the “cadaver lab” of a human anatomy course.
The book is divided into two sections. The early poems are weighted toward the artistic sphere of drawing and art history, interspersed with poems inspired by Boruch’s time as an observer of medical students dissecting human cadavers. The second section begins just over halfway through the book. It takes on the voice of a 99-year-old dead woman, imagining her impressions as medical students dissect her cadaver.
The poems are in free verse. Boruch renders remembered and imagined speech in italics. She does not include a “notes” section; instead, she explains where she took a life-drawing course and served as a silent observer in a gross human anatomy course, and points to other experts and sources helpful for her project.
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