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The Cancer Journals is a 1980 book of non-fiction by poet and activist Audre Lorde.It deals with her struggle with breast cancer and relates it to her strong advocacy and identity in certain social issues such as lesbian, civil rights, and feminist issues.
Those who have died are said to have lost their "battle with cancer", while the living are described as "fighting cancer". While the use of metaphors can help physicians explain cancer in a way that is understood by patients, it has been argued that words such as battle and fight are inappropriate, as they suggest that cancer can be defeated if ...
In 2018-2019 she was the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at the University of Cambridge, [13] and in 2023 she was the Louis D. Rubin Jr. Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University. [14] Her diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer has become the subject of her current work, examining the intersection of social class and medical care. [15]
Kirkpatrick is a breast cancer survivor and writes about her experience in her 2011 poetry collection, Unaccountable Weather. She is an English professor at Appalachian State University . Her profile on the university's English Department webpage lists her specialties as poetry and poetics, Irish literature and culture, ecocriticism and ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Poems about death. Pages in category "Poems about death" The following 55 ...
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000 In 2000, Clifton published this book, which compiles four of her previous collections along with new poems. The book delves into Clifton's personal fight against breast cancer as well as involves itself with mythology, religion, and the legacy of slavery.
In 2003, Darling's first full-length collection of poems, Sudden Collapses in Public Places, was published by Arc and was awarded a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She worked on a number of arts and health projects, including work with elderly people in residential homes for Equal Arts, and she ran drama workshops for doctors and patients ...
Coleridge attended the school Christ's Hospital, and he was often at the sanatorium for illness while there.The poems "Pain", "A Few Lines" and "Genevieve" were written during his final year, but he experienced various illnesses during his stay that were the result of either chronic illness or illnesses resulting from his own actions, including swimming across the New River which resulted in ...