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A recipient of a guggenheim fellowship, the bechtel prize for educating the imagination, and the dorothea langepaul taylor prize, she teaches at the university of rhode island and lives in providence. Cappello detects an affinity between jacksons obsessive collecting and the hysterics disordered swallowing, known clinically as pica after a genus of magpies, a bird known for hoarding shiny. Mary cappello stumbled across this cabinet of curiosities on a trip to philadelphia and carefully unpacks it to reveal the biography of its. Nov 04, 2010 author mary cappello wrote this book while undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Jackson was a pioneer in the medical profession and his life and work is the subject of a new book, swallow. Mary cappello brings a poets flair to her meditations on the queer symbolical import of the phenomenon. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. The collection is a remarkable testament to the strangeness of the human experience and our ability to swallow. Jan 18, 2011 mary cappellos new book swallow, about chevalier jacksons collection of objects that people had swallowed, reminded me of a most unusual case.
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