Poetry. Memoir. Art by Kris Mills. CAPUT NILI: HOW I WON THE WAR AND LOST MY TASTE FOR ORANGES recounts the true story of what happened when award-winning poet Lisa Gill threatened to hold up an MRI clinic in 2003. Using poetry, prose, and art, this memoir takes a powerful look at both personal and institutionalized violence and explores how a hard-won medical diagnosis left the author searching to understand the history of violence in her life and the consequences for her health. Anyone who has ever been ignored, discounted, invalidated, categorized into silence will love this book, and that's just part of the audience. Gill's quest through the Wonderland of our healthcare system is by turns harrowing and hilarious, a must-read for anyone interested in resilience and the capacity of the human spirit to survive. "CAPUT NILI is a powerful testament to the human spirit as it attempts to grow in a field of absurdity. Outrageous, funny, and brilliant!"—Joy Harjo.

Author City: ALBUQUERQUE, NM USA

Lisa Gill has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, a Gratitude Award from New Mexico Literary Arts, and an Achievement Award from the University of New Mexico, where she earned an MFA with distinction in 2010. She has published four previous books of poetry, Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist; Mortar & Pestle; Dark Enough; and The Relenting: A Play of Sorts.

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