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Pain Studies
Written by Lisa Olstein
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In this extended lyric essay, a poet mines her lifelong experience with migraines to deliver a cultural history of pain—how we experience, express, treat, and mistreat it.
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Lisa Olstein
Lisa Olstein is a renowned author who specializes in poetry and nonfiction. She currently teaches at the University of Texas at Austin.
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