The Cancer Poetry Project: Poems by Cancer Patients and Those Who Love Them,9781577491002

The Cancer Poetry Project: Poems by Cancer Patients and Those Who Love Them

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ISBN13: 9781577491002
ISBN10: 1577491009
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-03-01
Publisher(s): Natl Book Network
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Summary

An anthology of cancer-related poetry from survivors, family caregivers, and health care providers.

Author Biography

Karin B. Miller is a published poet and the wife of a cancer survivor.

Table of Contents

Poems by Theme xvi
Preface xxi
Foreword xxiii
POEMS BY CANCER PATIENTS
I entered the room, naked
3(1)
Nancy Louise Peterson
it's never too late
4(2)
Nancy Louise Peterson
Farewell to Hair
6(2)
Terri Hanson
There is a river running in the blood of him
8(2)
James McGrath
Suddenly, life changes
10(1)
tommie ortega
before and after
11(1)
tommie ortega
A Woman Argues with the Casting Director
12(2)
Kathleen A. Rogers
the good doctors
14(2)
Ruthann Robson
Prostate Cancer as a Sporting Event
16(2)
Ric Masten
``Poor Devil!''
18(2)
Ric Masten
Finding God at Montefiore Hospital
20(1)
Lorraine Ryan
It seems we can live with cancer now
21(1)
Bonnie Maurer
The Answer
22(2)
Bonnie Maurer
Bi Bye-Bye, Buy
24(2)
Mary Milton
The Cancer Patient Talks Back
26(2)
Molly Redmond
Because a world may be called into being
28(1)
Gary Young
A Man Learning Women
29(3)
David Zeiger
Letters Received
32(2)
Denise Larrabee
When I inherit the star
34(2)
Lauren E. Alexanderson
Reminiscence
36(1)
Ruth Molly James
The Spy
37(1)
Marlene Rosen Fine
The Breast
38(2)
Marlene Rosen Fine
Oncology in Advent
40(2)
Bonnie Thurston
Impotence
42(1)
Harvey Overton
Variations on My Room in the Bone Marrow Unit: In the Room of Cows
43(1)
Julie Moulds
One Hundred and Ten Days
44(2)
Julie Moulds
Midnight in the Pretty Little House
46(1)
Greg Keith
First Summer
47(3)
Joan Annsfire
When I Had cancer I thought
50(2)
Mark Sheffield Brown
There's not a book on how to do this
52(2)
Sharon Doyle
How to Stay Alive
54(2)
Judith Strasser
Reconstruction
56(2)
Lisa Katz
Diamonds
58(2)
Marcia Renee Goodman
Bay Bridge/Rosh Chodesh
60(2)
Dori Ehrlich
How Will Death Arrive?
62(3)
Mildred Erickson Buzenberg
Julie Ann in the Bone Marrow Unit
65(1)
John Rybicki
Outside the Bone Marrow Unit
66(2)
John Rybicki
Diagnosis
68(1)
Natalie Olsen
Guinea Pig
69(1)
Julie Cadwallader-Staub
This Month
70(2)
Julie Cadwallader-Staub
Slow Dancing at the Med-Inn
72(2)
F. Richard Thomas
Chores
74(2)
Perie Longo
A Walk at Dusk
76(1)
Jere Truer
Numb
77(1)
Florence Weinberger
Absence of Place
78(2)
Rev. Charles Brackbill
Nephrostomy Tube Surgery at Age Thirty-Four
80(1)
Karin B. Miller
Greek
81(1)
Karin B. Miller
Odds
82(1)
Jane Eaton Hamilton
A Lesson
83(1)
Judy Rohm
Chocolates
84(2)
Marjorie Woodbury
The Seven Sorrows
86(3)
Nancy Madison Fitzgerald
March 29, 1985
89(1)
Nancy Madison Fitzgerald
Survival Diptych
90(2)
David Graham
Elegy
92(2)
Tad Richards
Valentine's Day, 1975
94(2)
Patricia A. Joslin
Richard Leaving
96(2)
Ann Sanfedele
Mourning Doves
98(1)
Rebecca Wee
Widow
99(3)
Rebecca Wee
The cancerous cell
102(5)
James Doyle
POEMS BY FAMILY MEMBERS
song
107(1)
Kevin Smith
She's All Right
108(1)
Darci D. Schummer
Cigarettes
109(1)
Suzanne Frischkorn
Poem of the Week
110(2)
Veneta Masson
Not Listening
112(2)
Virginia Chase Sutton
I Will Breathe and Breathe
114(2)
Jeanne Bryner
History
116(1)
Vera Kroms
mother, I am feeling myself slip
117(3)
Luissa Joy Chekowsky
Big Sale Today
120(2)
Carol Kapaun Ratchenski
Ready or Not
122(2)
David Sten Herrstrom
After the Diagnosis
124(2)
Carolyn Hall
Lucky
126(2)
Tony Gloeggler
Palm Sunday
128(2)
Charles Oberkehr
Five-Year Anniversary
130(1)
Kymberly Stark Williams
A Mother's Despair
131(1)
Mary H. Amundsen
Shape Shifter
132(2)
Scott Wiggerman
A Fantasy (Thirty Years Later)
134(2)
Mary Gorder
Self-Examination
136(2)
Clinton B. Campbell
In the Mirror
138(1)
John Grey
Mother Eulogy
139(3)
Shannon Sexton
Adagio for Ginny
142(2)
Karen Leahy
Giving the Darkness Shape
144(2)
Laura Stearns
Let Us Now Praise
146(2)
Judith McCombs
Practicing My Goodbye after He's Gone
148(2)
Jeffrey L. Stangl
In Cold Dreams before Dawn
150(2)
Muriel Fish
An Explanation to My Dying Daughter
152(1)
Francie Freeman
Courage
153(1)
Francie Freeman
Yahrzeit
154(2)
Dr. Bonnie Salomon
Windstorm
156(1)
Larry Schug
A Mother and a Daughter
157(1)
Elizabeth Ann Johnson
Red
158(2)
Elizabeth Ann Johnson
The Miracle of Milkweed
160(2)
Ross Klongerbo
On the Beach
162(2)
Stephen J. Kudless
Making Pies in the Dark
164(2)
Elaine Wright Christensen
Chrysalis
166(2)
Brian Long
Again, July
168(2)
Kathleen Large
One Last Favor
170(2)
Marilyn L. Taylor
Garden Variety
172(2)
Colette Giles Tennant
Persephone
174(2)
Janine Soucie Kelley
Sharing
176(3)
Sam Friedman
POEM BY FRIENDS AND HEALTH ADVISORS
The Wrong Month
179(1)
Anthony Russell White
The diagnosis
180(2)
Majid Mohiuddin
Awkward Friends
182(2)
Laurel Winter
She Asked for a Joke or Poem
184(2)
Charles Rossiter
My Friend
186(1)
Joanne Bergbom
Say Yes
187(1)
Marc J. Straus
Rocky Road
188(2)
Marc J. Straus
Double Mastectomy
190(2)
Ann Campanella
The Door
192(2)
David H. Huffman
Pesach
194(2)
Elizabeth Rosner
Leaving the Clinic
196(2)
Marilyn L. Taylor
Seed
198(1)
Floyd Skloot
In Remission
199(1)
Floyd Skloot
To a friend now separated from me by illness
200(2)
Gretchen Fletcher
Dinner Party
202(2)
Susan Steger Welsh
When Autumn Came
204(1)
Deborah Gordon Cooper
The Widow Speaks
205(1)
John Manesis
There is a woman falling
206(2)
Karen Haas-Howland
I did not know his name
208(2)
Terri S. Hudson
For Lorraine
210(2)
Dr. Nelson L. Rhodus
Theology
212(2)
Sima Rabinowitz
Untitled
214(2)
B. A. (Bonnie) St. Andrews
Empathetic Ode
216(2)
Dorothy Stone
Clay Pigeons
218(2)
Elizabeth Winthrop
In the Eighties
220(2)
Helen Schary Motro
Turban
222(2)
Suellen Kone Wedmore
Gifts
224(2)
Patti Marshock
Friends for Life
226(2)
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro
Lines for Spring
228(2)
Rebecca Pierre
For Nina on Her Sixteenth Birthday
230(2)
Donna Pucciani
The Thirteenth Floor
232(2)
Davi Walders
The Daughter, the Moon and Jamaica
234(2)
Kate Gray
Hiking in the Anza-Borrego Desert after Surgery
236(2)
Francine Sterle
Snatching
238(1)
Christopher Gutkind
Apartment on Third and Brooks
239(1)
Kjersti Reed
Glenn's Laugh
240(2)
Kjersti Reed
Good Night
242(2)
Jo Nelson
Walk Me into the Morning
244(2)
Beth Shorr Jaffe
An Oncology Nurse's Tribute
246(1)
Barbara Hunt, RN, BSN
For a friend lying in intensive care waiting for her white blood cells to rejuvenate after a bone marrow transplant
247
Barbara Crooker

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