Author: D. A. Powell
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 9781555976064
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Now in paperback, the winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award so many of the best days seem minor forms of nearness that easily fall among the dropseed: a rind, a left-behind —from "no picnic" In these brilliant poems from one of contemporary poetry's most intriguing, singular voices, D. A. Powell strikes out for the farther territories of love and comes back from those fields with loss, with flowers faded, "blossom blast and dieback." Chronic describes the flutter and cruelty of erotic encounter, temptation, and bitter heartsickness, but with Powell's deep lyric beauty and his own brand of dark wit.
Author: Molly Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Molly Murray portrays her personal evolution from raw despair to the triumph of self-love in this intimate, often painful, and sometimes humorous collection of poetry about life as a spoonie. She describes in exquisite detail her experience of chronic illness, weaving wry commentary of the medical patriarchy with an exquisite sense of self in a folkloric tapestry of themes that are often bypassed by able-ist mainstream culture. This is a book that will make you feel "seen."
Author: Heather Taylor Johnson
Publisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781742589312
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Of course not all great art has its genesis in pain, and not all pain-not even a fraction-leads to the partial consolations of art. But if lancing an abscess is the surest way to healing, can poetry offer that same cleansing of emotional wounds? Shaping the Fractured Self showcases twenty-eight of Australia's finest poets who happen to live with chronic illness and pain. The autobiographical short essays, in conjunction with the three poems from each of the poets, capture the body in trauma in its many and varied moods. Because those who live with chronic illness and pain experience shifts in their relationship to it on a yearly, monthly, or daily basis, so do the words they use to describe it. This book gives voice to sufferers, carers, medical practitioners, and researchers, building understanding in a community of caring. [Subject: Chronic Illness, Poetry, Health Studies]
Author: Jeanne Johnson
Publisher: Booksurge Llc
ISBN: 9781588987259
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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For people who live with Chronic Pain, every day is different, every day is a special journey.
Author: Tiffany Mohar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781093172867
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 101
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Tiffany Mohar set out to create a book of poetry and stories that brings awareness surrounding life with chronic illness. Hoping that those who suffer from chronic illness will realize they are not alone and feel a sense of validation. It also acts as a tool to educate those around us what life with chronic illness is like. While Tiffany's particular experiences stem from Lupus, this acts as an umbrella cascading over many chronic illnesses. The book is divided into categories such as: Flares, Isolation, Diagnosis, Fatigue, The Mind, and Domino effects.
Author: Linda Louise Martinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Author: Lucia Perillo
Publisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595340920
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Acclaimed poet and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Lucia Perillo, a former park ranger who loved to hike the Cascade Mountains alone and prided herself on daring solo skis down the wild slopes of Mount Rainier, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was in her thirties. I've Heard the Vultures Singing is a clear-eyed and brazenly outspoken examination of her life as a person with disabilities. In unwavering and witty prose, and without a trace of self-pity, she contemplates the bitter ironies of being unable to walk, what it’s like to experience eros as a sick person, how to lower one’s expectations for a wilderness experience, and how to deal with the vagaries of a disease that has no predictable trajectory. Masterfully written, the essays resonate with lovers of literature and nature, and with anyone who has dealt with disadvantages of the body or the hard-luck limitations of ordinary life.
Author: Molly McCully Brown
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0892555386
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In seventeen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body—in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder. In spite of—indeed, in response to—physical constraints, Brown leads a peripatetic life: the essays comprise a vivid travelogue set throughout the United States and Europe, ranging from the rural American South of her childhood to the cobblestoned streets of Bologna, Italy. Moving between these locales and others, Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing twin, a life in poetry. As she does, she depicts vividly for us not only her own life but a striking array of sites and topics, among them Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the world’s oldest anatomical theater, the American Eugenics movement, and Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. Throughout, Brown offers us the gift of her exquisite sentences, woven together in consideration, always, of what it means to be human—flawed, potent, feeling.
Author: Jennifer Richter
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809334828
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 81
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"A collection of prose poems and lineated poems that chronicle everyday frustrations, confusions, and joys connected mainly with motherhood and illness"--
Author: Meghan O'Rourke
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101486554
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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"Anguished, beautifully written... The Long Goodbye is an elegiac depiction of drama as old as life." -- The New York Times Book Review From one of America's foremost young literary voices, a transcendent portrait of the unbearable anguish of grief and the enduring power of familial love. What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge grief? After her mother died of cancer at the age of fifty-five, Meghan O'Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for the intensity of her sorrow. In the first anguished days, she began to create a record of her interior life as a mourner, trying to capture the paradox of grief-its monumental agony and microscopic intimacies-an endeavor that ultimately bloomed into a profound look at how caring for her mother during her illness changed and strengthened their bond. O'Rourke's story is one of a life gone off the rails, of how watching her mother's illness-and separating from her husband-left her fundamentally altered. But it is also one of resilience, as she observes her family persevere even in the face of immeasurable loss. With lyricism and unswerving candor, The Long Goodbye conveys the fleeting moments of joy that make up a life, and the way memory can lead us out of the jagged darkness of loss. Effortlessly blending research and reflection, the personal and the universal, it is not only an exceptional memoir, but a necessary one.
