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On her own terms : poems about memory loss & living life to the fullest / Carolyn Gammon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gammon, Carolyn, 1959- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers and daughters.
- Dementia--Patients.
- Dementia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (148 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Madeira Park, British Columbia : Harbour Publishing, [2021]
- Summary:
- Internationally acclaimed author Carolyn Gammon conjures a kind and unflinching portrait of her mother's dementia--ultimately revealing the love, joy and life which remain even as memory and past fade.Learning to speak in maybes-- perhaps I told you?Were you there?.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Bright Margin of the Present
- Baby Pines
- Sending Me Home
- In the Morgue
- Stale
- Teetering
- Fault Line
- Mole Removal
- Going Squirrelly
- Scandalous!
- Sandwich
- No Withdrawals
- Burning at Both Ends
- A Love Poem for Your Ninetieth Year
- Wild Pearl
- Tsunami
- Should I Fly?
- Together
- Saving Your Life
- Lazarus
- A Place That Has Always Been
- Into Transparency
- All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
- Blowing Her Nose
- The Little Cyclist
- Good Days Bad Days
- A Joke on Her Lips
- With Me, Knowing Me
- Frances and Katharina
- Cottage Nursing Care
- Playing Dolls
- Made Young Again
- Two Old Vets
- "The Grave Is Not the Goal"
- "I Want to Die"
- Ollie
- Learning to Die
- Just Being
- The Offer of a Heart
- What's Left of Her
- My Mother the Astronaut
- Super Fran
- Leftover Family
- Between Heartbeats
- Zen
- Does She Know You?
- Ramps
- In My Mother's Words
- A Day in the Life of a Bug-in-a-Rug
- Her Warble
- Fingerprint
- I Love You
- The Fiddlehead
- On Her Own Terms
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Gammon, Carolyn On Her Own Terms
- ISBN:
- 9781550179668
- OCLC:
- 1256446803
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