Our Cancers: Poems O'Brien Dan
Our Cancers: Poems O'Brien Dan Poet and playwright Dan O'Brien chronicles the year and a half during which both he and his wife were treated for cancer.On the fourteenth anniversary of 9/11--an event…
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Our Cancers: Poems O'Brien Dan
Poet and playwright Dan O'Brien chronicles the year and a half during which both he and his wife were treated for cancer.On the fourteenth anniversary of 9/11--an event that caused their downtown apartment to become "suffused with the World Trade Center's carcinogenic dust"--Dan O'Brien's wife discovers a lump in her breast. He has colon cancer and will need to undergo his own intensive treatment over the next nine months.Our Cancers is a compelling account of illness and commitment, of parenthood and partnership. Surgery and chemotherapy soon follow, and on the day of his wife's final infusion, O'Brien learns of his own diagnosis.
This spare and powerful sequence creates an intimate mythology that seeks meaning in illness while also celebrating of the resilience of sufferers, caregivers, and survivors.As O'Brien explains in an introduction, "The