Patient: Poems, by Bettina Judd

“In Patient Bettina Judd beautifully (and horrifically) draws on historical evidence of 19th-century medical experimentation on Black women, scholarly explorations of the body and the archive, and personal medical history. The result is haunting in its insistence on laying bare these stories as they not only articulate experiences of the past but also resonate deeply with Black women’s experiences with the U.S. medical complex in the present.” — Elsa Barkley Brown, University of Maryland