Book description
This elegant and moving collection documents Hilda Raz's experience
with breast cancer. The journey, from diagnosis to chemotherapy to
mastectomy, from denial to humor to grief and rage, is ultimately one of
courage and creativity. The poems themselves are accessible and finely
wrought. They are equally testaments to Raz's insistence on making an
order out of chaos, of finding ways to create and understand and
eventually accept new definitions of good and evil, health, blame,
personal boundaries -- in short, a new sense of self. These poems remain
intimately bound to the world and of the senses, becoming documents of
transformation. HILDA RAZ is Associate Professor of English at the
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and Editor-in-Chief of the literary
quarterly Prairie Schooner. Her books include Trans (Wesleyan, 2001),
The Bone Dish (1989), What Is Good (1988), and What Happens (1986).
