Her Soul Beneath the Bone Women's Poetry on Breast Cancer |
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Editor:
| Lifshitz, Leatrice |
Foreword by:
| Kushner, Rose |
Contribution by:
| Kushner, Rose Metzger, Deena Kennedy, Terry Seltzer, Joanne Halperin, Joan Lohmann, Jeanne |
Introduction by:
| Thompson, Phyllis Hoge |
ISBN: | 978-0-252-06008-3 |
Publication Date: | Nov 1988 |
Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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''Breast cancer is confronted here with keen sensitivity and candor in poems that are serious but not sentimental or self-pitying. . . . Almost all the verses are written in direct and prose-like style---this creates a singular tone and lends the collection richness and resilience. And though terrible grief and loss emerge in there pages, so do ......
''Breast cancer is confronted here with keen sensitivity and candor in poems that are serious but not sentimental or self-pitying. . . . Almost all the verses are written in direct and prose-like style---this creates a singular tone and lends the collection richness and resilience. And though terrible grief and loss emerge in there pages, so do ......