Patient. by Bettina Judd

Patient. by Bettina Judd is a collection of poetry set in the time of American slavery and imagined through the eyes of black slaves, Anarcha Wescott, Betsey Harris, Lucey Zimmerman, and many others who were the subject of experiments that have contributed to the advancement of modern gynecology.

                               

The title of the collection allows Judd play with the double meaning of the word “patient” to show both the technical, emotionless science with which these women were seen and treated in juxtaposition with their courage and resilience.

The play on the word “patient” also allows Judd to play with form in ways that reenact or imitate conversations with doctors, mathematic formulas, checklists, etc.

Where to buy:

https://www.blacklawrence.com/patient/

https://www.amazon.com/Patient-Bettina-Judd/dp/1625579233

More about the author:

http://www.bettinajudd.com/

https://www.blacklawrence.com/patient/

Author’s blog:

http://www.patientpoems.com/

NPR segment on Anarcha Wescott, Lucy Zimmerman, and Betsey Harris:

https://www.npr.org/2017/02/07/513764158/remembering-anarcha-lucy-and-betsey-the-mothers-of-modern-gynecology