pA fascinating, totally seductive read --bEula Bissb, author of iNotes from No Man's Land American Essaysi and iOn Immunity An InoculationippA book built of brain and nerve and blood and heart. . . . Irreverent and astute. . . . iPain Studiesi will change how you think about living with a body. --bElizabeth McCrackenb, author of iThunderstrucki and iBowlawayippA thrilling investigation into pain, language, and Olstein's own exile from what Woolf called 'the army of the upright.' On a search path through art, science, poetry, and prime-time television, Olstein aims her knife-bright compassion at the very thing we're all running from. iPain Studiesi is a masterpiece. --bLeni Zumasb, author of iThe Listenersi and iRed ClocksippIn this extended lyric essay, a poet mines her lifelong experience with migraine to deliver a marvelously idiosyncratic cultural history of pain--how we experience, express, treat, and mistreat it. Her sources range from the trial of Joan of Arc to the essays of Vi