Marlena Chertock grew up crumb-sized, with a rare bone disorder.
Her poetry is on.
With frank humor, Chertock takes on varied and critical aspects of identity--femininity, gender, sexuality--as they relate (or don\'t relate) to her disability, somehow succeeding in making them familiar and universal.
She uses this skeletal dysplasia and chronic pain as a bridge to scientific poetry, often exploring the rich images in science and medicine, threading genetics, space, and nature into her work.
Marlena Chertock grew up crumb-sized, with a rare bone disorder