Download or read book Cancer Poetry written by Iain Twiddy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first critical study to offer a sustained analysis of the theme of cancer in contemporary poetry. In discussing works by major poets, including Paul Muldoon, Jo Shapcott and Christopher Reid, Cancer Poetry traces the complex ways in which poets represent cancer, and assesses how poetry can be instrumental to emotional recovery.
Download or read book The Cancer Poetry Project 2 written by Karin B. Miller and published by . This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single poem-- heart-rending, fearful, raging, beautiful, grotesque, even hilarious-- lets us know we're not alone in dealing with cancer. This was the idea that launched "The Cancer Poetry Project." Like the first volume, "The Cancer Poetry Project 2" drew more than 1,000 submissions from widely published poets, first-time poets and many poets in between. The resulting anthology features the best 140 poems, plus the story and the people behind each. Men, women and children. All walks of life. All types of cancer experiences. Readers will find comfort, understanding and much more in four chapters: Poems by Cancer Patients; Poems by Spouses, Partners, and Lovers; Poems by Family Members; and Poems by Friends and Health Advisors. Reviewers and readers call it powerful medicine.
Download or read book Please Come Off Book written by Kevin Kantor and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please Come Off-Book queers the theatrical canon we all grew up with. Kantor critiques the treatment of queer figures and imagines a braver and bolder future that allows queer voices the agency over their own stories. Drawing upon elements of the Aristotelian dramatic structure and the Hero's Journey, Please Come Off-Book is both a love letter to and a scathing critique of American culture and the lenses we choose to see ourselves through.
Download or read book Four Reincarnations written by Max Ritvo and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reverent and profane, entertaining and bruising, Four Reincarnations is a debut collection of poems that introduces an exciting new voice in American letters. When Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent for his body. The poems of Four Reincarnations are dispatches from chemotherapy beds and hospitals and the loneliest spaces in the home. They are relentlessly embodied, communicating pain, violence, and loss. And yet they are also erotically, electrically attuned to possibility and desire, to “everything living / that won’t come with me / into this sunny afternoon.” Ritvo explores the prospect of death with singular sensitivity, but he is also a poet of life and of love—a cool-eyed assessor of mortality and a fervent champion for his body and its pleasures. Ritvo writes to his wife, ex-lovers, therapists, fathers, and one mother. He finds something to love and something to lose in everything: Listerine PocketPak breath strips, Indian mythology, wool hats. But in these poems—from the humans that animate him to the inanimate hospital machines that remind him of death—it’s Ritvo’s vulnerable, aching pitch of intimacy that establishes him as one of our finest young poets.
Download or read book My Poetry Trip Through Cancer written by Diane Parkhurst and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of God-inspired poetry given to the author for comfort during her journey through a cancer diagnosis and recovery. The author shares poems written about the fear of cancer through the amazing gifts given to her by God.
Download or read book Her Soul Beneath the Bone written by Leatrice H. Lifshitz and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems deal with mammograms, diagnosis, surgery, complications, recovery, and psychological implications of breast cancer.
Download or read book You Better Be Lightning written by Andrea Gibson and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards Gold Medal Winner 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Gold Medal Winner 2022 Over the Rainbow Short List 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist 2021 Bookshop's Indie Press Highlights You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between. One of the most celebrated poets and performers of the last two decades, Andrea Gibson's trademark honesty and vulnerability are on full display in You Better Be Lightning, welcoming and inviting readers to be just as they are.
Download or read book Cancer Poems written by Dave Morrison and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When poet Dave Morrison was diagnosed with tonsilor cancer he reacted the only way he know how; by writing poems. "In these honest and courageous poems, Morrison shares his turbulent journey through the landscape of cancer, its painful paths and nearly unclimbable hills, its tremendous skies with bright stars of gratitude. These poems encompass a geography of emotion, from self-deprecation and moments of despair, to humor, love, and resilience. Morrison describes the beginning of illness, the long days "where each breath is a/ noticeable event," the measurement and exhaustion of pain, the beautiful allure of morphine. This collection reminds us that life's brutal blows are meant to help us learn "important lessons about what/ is real and good and valuable," and to sing "a song of thanks/ as loud as a/ saxophone." -Ellen Taylor, author of Floating
Download or read book For Thou Art with Me written by Judith Lane Bynum and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every person who goes through the emotional and physical upheaval of cancer has a story. Most, however, do not write it down. In this remarkable collection of poems, Judith Bynum has shared a bit of her soul. In the midst of her pain and suffering of cancer, she expresses hanging questions, lingering doubts, and uncertain futureswhat most people cannot easily verbalize. When she felt her worst, the verses came rumbling and tumbling out of her in the wee hours of the morning, calming the pain in the process. The poems were her ladder out of the hole. In times when she felt her faith and hope slipping, the poetry helped her look up, and there was God, always near. The power of the poems is that they were written in the midst of the pain, not afterward, looking back. Judiths ability to express herself will hopefully help a cancer victim who is struggling to find the right words. That in itself is powerful. Sharing her weaknesses and vulnerabilities is what makes these poems real. Often she offers a humorous view of the trials of cancer and the changes it wreaks on the body and spirit. There is no resignation or acquiescence in the words, both of which are seen often among those who are struggling; instead, there is acceptance and surrender. In the midst of her questions and pains, her faith shines through. This powerful book will inspire readers to remember that God is always near.
Download or read book Cancer Defeated written by Celestine Carr and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From being a cancer victim to a cancer survivor gave the author the inspiration to write this book of poetry. The words of each poem is written to inspire, uplift, encourage, bring hope, cause broken hearts to be mended, renew faith, begin spiritual healing, and peace to every heart.
Download or read book Surviving Cancer written by Frederick Douglas Harper and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving Cancer: Poetry and Prose reflects the author’s recent experiences as a cancer survivor and how cancer changed his worldview as an aging elder. Dr. Harper’s poetry and prose address his cancer treatment experience and his even greater disposition of humility from and appreciation of blessings during his lifetime—a life of serving and creating for the good of others. Featured poems and prose in this book include “Cancer: A Sweet-and-Sour Experience,” “A Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg” (who died from cancer), “Announcement of My Cancer to Friends and Family on Facebook,” “God Had My Back,” “A Hospital Visitor,” “Life with Healthcare,” “Trail of Tears: Forced Removal of Native Americans,” “A Child’s Nightly Prayer,” and “We Are All God’s Children.” The author’s purpose in all of his creative writings over the years has been to educate, therapize, enlighten, and inspire his readers.
Download or read book Our Cancers written by Dan O'Brien and published by Acre Books. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet and playwright Dan O'Brien chronicles the year and a half during which both he and his wife were treated for cancer. On the fourteenth anniversary of 9/11--an event that caused their downtown apartment to become "suffused with the World Trade Center's carcinogenic dust"--Dan O'Brien's wife discovers a lump in her breast. Surgery and chemotherapy soon follow, and on the day of his wife's final infusion, O'Brien learns of his own diagnosis. He has colon cancer and will need to undergo his own intensive treatment over the next nine months. Our Cancers is a compelling account of illness and commitment, of parenthood and partnership. This spare and powerful sequence creates an intimate mythology that seeks meaning in illness while also celebrating of the resilience of sufferers, caregivers, and survivors. As O'Brien explains in an introduction, "The consecutiveness of our personal disasters, with a daughter not yet two years old at the start of it, was shattering and nearly silencing. At hospital bedsides, in hospital beds myself, and at home through the cyclical assaults of our therapies, these poems came to me in fragments, as if my unconscious were attempting to reassemble our lives, our identities and memories . . . as if I were in some sense learning how to speak again."
Download or read book The Undying written by Anne Boyer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION "The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer,' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself." —Sally Rooney, author of Normal People "Anne Boyer’s radically unsentimental account of cancer and the 'carcinogenosphere' obliterates cliche. By demonstrating how her utterly specific experience is also irreducibly social, she opens up new spaces for thinking and feeling together. The Undying is an outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique." —Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka School A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. A twenty-first-century Illness as Metaphor, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival, The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, corporate lies, John Donne, pro-pain ”dolorists,” the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders of capitalism. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of ”pink ribbon culture” while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker, Susan Sontag, and others. A genre-bending memoir in the tradition of The Argonauts, The Undying will break your heart, make you angry enough to spit, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally, perversely glorious. Includes black-and-white illustrations
Download or read book Everybody Reads A Poem written by Mary L. Henry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In EVERYBODY READS A POEM, Mary Leah Cornish-Henry gracefully chronicles her astonishing story of her fight against cancer facing the many gruesome effects of chemotherapy, and staying caner free two months after surgery, and remaining so 5 years later. Leah’s fight started when she discovered a lump under her arm, and on May 23, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Although Leah practiced a fairly healthy lifestyle of diet and exercise, the diagnosis showed a stage three breast cancer. Within the few weeks following the diagnosis, Leah started facing a debilitating fear – Fear of dying! Along Leah’s pathway to healing, she was a patient at a Natural lifestyle center in Euchee Pines Lifestyle center in Alabama. Her health improved at the end of the treatment period, but the cancer was still active in her body. In August of 2007, she had surgery, and then moved on the Immune Recovery Foundation to continue her treatment in conventional and naturopathic medicine. Although Leah’s treatment included only 10% chemotherapy, and 90 natural treatments, she was plagued with immeasurable amount of side effects. The one side effect that taunted her the most was the ugly stain of depression. In the midst of these treatments, Leah remained faithful to her God, and accepted the help of many good friends. Though she could barely shun the depression that led her to antidepressant and a week in the hospital’s psychiatric ward, she did do one thing – WRITE! So for the next 5 years, Mary Leah Cornish-Henry has written over one hundred poems which bring her joy and healing from the terrible disease of cancer. In May of 2012, Ms Henry resigned her job as a public school teacher to devote 100% of her time towards her health. Leah has overcome numerous suicide ideations, and has chosen life instead of death. She has taken the time to share her cancer healing poems with you, in an attempt that you may find – Joy and healing from your pain and loss!
Download or read book Now I Lay Me Down to Fight written by Katy Bowser Hutson and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cancer, did you know that I am a poet? In stirring verse and essays, Katy Bowser Hutson chronicles her battle with breast cancer and the complications of faith amid such a fight. Accentuated by the art of Jodi Hays, Katy's words lead us through her resistance to sickness, fight for survival, and wrestling toward beauty.
Download or read book Not God written by Marc J. Straus and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-15 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tread of the nurses leaving the room next door tells the woman her neighbor has died. The language of the hospital is one she has unwillingly, painstakingly learned: the rhythm of machines, the counting of pills, the measuring of words, the shadowy news of an MRI. And in these harrowing, eloquent poems, she opens this world, this language of illness, to us, revealing how deeply these words and rhythms are also the measure of life. The views of her doctor are also evocatively expressed--his anger, struggles, and hopes--as he speaks of the delicate bond he forms with his ill patients. Composed by a distinguished medical oncologist whose literary work has been performed in venues throughout the country, the poems of Not God document one woman's encounter with cancer, a journey through illness whose end, while inevitable, is also unknown. Alternating with the words of her doctor, these poems form a remarkable dialogue of the flesh becoming word, and of the body inventorying--and finally transcending--its limitations.
Download or read book Yes Cancer French Kisses written by D.C. Berry and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “X-ray” of Berry's two flings with Multiple Myeloma condensed into haikus. Except where he fudges-out of the haiku syllable-count strait jacket, then calls them cell phone texts, or telegrams, or poemettes if in a poodle mood. Or finger sandwiches in which the baloney is bigger than the bread. Sometimes he raps. Beowulf: Oft Scyld Scefing sceabena preatum. Jump to William Langland (Piers Plowman): A fair field full of folk. On to Shakespeare: Beated and chopp’d with tann’d antiquity. And James Jibber Joyce: Seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, the rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver rust. Eminem gets the last word-spasm: And just blurt this berserk and bizarre shit that works . . . . Berry didn’t battle cancer, but embraced her: Miss Myeloma or Mylo.
