Description: Dr. Sharon Foley's poems illuminate the complexity of emotions surrounding illness, death and loss. Her experience as a physician gives her a unique perspective from which to shine that light, allowing insight into life's most personal and powerful moments, she witnesses cancer's slow ravage, "each day your stomach collapsed/further into itself/ and you went with it/folding into the seam of your bed"; pronounces a patient's death, "I felt something I never had before/it was like the rumbling of an approaching train/rushing faster, whistling louder"; describes cardiac surgery; "I saw inside/the house of your ribs." Sharon Foley's award winning poems invites us to experience her unforgettable encounters with illness and mortality; universal hardships that touch all of us.
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EAN: 9781635341034
UPC: 9781635341034
ISBN: 9781635341034
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Format: Paperback, 34 pages
Author: Foley, Sharon
Book Title: What Is Endured by Foley, Sharon [Paperback]
Item Height: 0.2 cm
Item Length: 21.6 cm
Item Weight: 0.05 kg
Item Width: 14 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: Finishing Line Press