Her Soul beneath the Bone: Women's Poetry on Breast Cancer
"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 humor and
        hope."
        — Publishers Weekly
     
 
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Her Soul beneath the Bone: Women's Poetry on Breast Cancer
"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 humor and
        hope."
        — Publishers Weekly
     
 
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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 humor and
        hope."
        — Publishers Weekly
     
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780252060083
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 11/01/1988
Pages: 104
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.30(d)
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