Annie Finch Archive Urgency: On Writing About the Body and the Corporeality of the Lyric Author: Emilia Phillips | Jul182016 Categories: Critical Essays, Writing Advice No comments A few years ago, I spent a good hour on a medical table, swaddled in a pale blue paper sheet, supine in the shadow of a plastic surgeon who had had to numb my face with three full syringes of lidocaine.