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Broken cup : poems / Margaret Gibson ; designer, Mandy McDonald Scallan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibson, Margaret, 1944- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry.
- Gibson, Margaret, 1944---Childhood and youth.
- Gibson, Margaret.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (88 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge, [Louisiana] : Louisiana State University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Broken Cup brings breathtaking eloquence to what Margaret Gibson describes as ""traveling the Way of Alzheimer''s"" with her husband, poet David McKain. After his initial and tentative diagnosis, Gibson suspended her writing for two years; but then poetry returned, and the creative process became the lightning rod that grounded her and presented a path forward. The poems in Broken Cup bear witness to how Alzheimer''s erodes memory and cognitive function, but they never forget to see what is present and to ask what may remain of the self.Moving and unflinchingly honest in the acknowledgment of
- Contents:
- Cover; CONTENTS; I; Sentences; II; Heaven; Remembering; Some Questions; Revising; Forgetting; Winter; Far-Hearted; Rosemary; Tasks; Enactment; Losing It; Working with Stone; Chantpleur; III; Respect; IV; Happiness; What Is It?; Spirits; House Arrest; Like Ice; Summer; After; Hard of Hearing; Finding It; Broken Cup; Bed; Pajama Poetry; Solitudes; Simple; Moment; Lucky Dark; A Good Death; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780807156452
- 0807156450
- 9780807156438
- 0807156434
- OCLC:
- 888744239
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