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The radiation sonnets : for my love, in sickness and in health / by Jane Yolen.
LIBRA PS3575.O43 R36 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yolen, Jane.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cancer--Patients--Family relationships--Poetry.
- Cancer.
- Cancer--Radiotherapy--Poetry.
- Married people--Poetry.
- Married people.
- Sonnets, American.
- Cancer--Radiotherapy.
- Cancer--Patients--Family relationships.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- x, 90 pages ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2003.
- Summary:
- Beautiful, intimate, hopeful, and even funny, The Radiation Sonnets speaks to all of us who have battled illness with a loved one. Jane Yolen has spent her life giving enjoyment to millions of readers with her award-winning books and poems. But when her husband was diagnosed with an inoperable tumor, Yolen's writing became her emotional lifeline. Every evening, during the forty-three days that her husband, David, underwent radiation therapy, Yolen would retreat to her attic and pour out the day's events -- as well as her thoughts, fears, and love -- into sonnets, fourteen lines of rhymed verse. The result is a remarkable sequence of uncommonly intimate, unexpectedly humorous, and deeply healing poems that chronicle her family's journey through trauma and toward recovery. When Yolen read some of these sonnets on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, there was an immediate outpouring of support from listeners -- among them cancer patients and their families, doctors, nurses, and therapists. The poems speak of Yolen's ambivalence about medical technology, her anger at the gods, her joy in small victories, her acknowledgment of life's utter precariousness, and her refusal to give up hope. Her words are a tribute to a long and loving marriage as well as to the selflessness of the caretaker. For caregivers and survivors alike, The Radiation Sonnets is a triumphant celebration of strength and spirit.
- Contents:
- The Beginning ix
- Day 1 A Promise to Eurydice 1
- Day 2 Second Day 3
- Day 3 Filled with Rays 5
- Day 4 Damn All Machines 7
- Day 5 Hanged Man 9
- Day 6 A Daughter's Visit 11
- Day 7 Organization 13
- Day 8 Sucking Candies 15
- Day 9 Mapping the Skull 17
- Day 10 A Little Sleep 19
- Day 11 Confusion 21
- Day 12 Food Wars: First Shot 23
- Day 13 Going for a Ride 25
- Day 14 Collateral Damage 27
- Day 15 Work Week 29
- Day 16 Talisman 31
- Day 17 Food Wars: Second Front 33
- Day 18 Letting Go 35
- Day 19 Temple 37
- Day 20 Ride 39
- Day 21 Holidays 41
- Day 22 Penultimate 43
- Day 23 Expectations 45
- Day 24 Hair Apparent 47
- Day 25 Waiting Room 49
- Day 26 Ask the Doctor 51
- Day 27 An Additional Week of Radiation 53
- Day 28 A Bad Day 55
- Day 29 Food Wars: Third Front 57
- Day 30 Changing the Angle 59
- Day 31 Daffodil Day 61
- Day 32 Journaling 63
- Day 33 One More Week 65
- Day 34 Escape 67
- Day 35 Bird-Watching 69
- Day 36 April Fools 71
- Day 37 Food Wars: Fourth Front 73
- Day 38 Words 75
- Day 39 Food Wars: Fifth Front 77
- Day 40 Hawks 79
- Day 41 Visitors 81
- Day 42 Away 83
- Day 43 Graduation Day 85
- And After... 87.
- ISBN:
- 1565124022
- OCLC:
- 52269626
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