Poetry
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Many people find poetry to be therapeutic - a way to express what they are feeling and experiencing. These poems have been generously shared over the years by people who have been touched by cancer.
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Dragonfly Rescue
From: Lifting My Shirt: the breast cancer poems
Making Chicken Soup
From: Almost Home Free. Pecan Grove Press, 2003.
Getting Biopsy Results
From: Lifting My Shirt: the breast cancer poems
Remission
From: The Lyric, Spring 2002
With Right of Survivorship
From: Fine Black Lines: reflections on facing cancer, fear and loneliness. Mulberry Hill Press, 1998.
9. Healing
From: The Crack in Everything. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.
Terrible Word
From: Don't Turn Away: poems about breast cancer. PWJ Publishing, 2000.
Cancer Scripts, in poems and pictures
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Seeing Red: Cancer and anger, in poems and pictures
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Alone
From: Can You Come Here Where I Am? Poetry & prose of seven breast cancer survivors. E.M. Press, 1998
And When She Was Bad
From: Fine Black Lines: Reflections on Facing Cancer, Fear and Loneliness. Mulberry Hill Press, 1998
Howler
From: Bare Root: a poet's journey with breast cancer. Terrapin Press, 2002
Reconstruction
7. Wintering
From: The Crack in Everything, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996
The Woman Whose Body Is Not Her Own
From: I Am Becoming The Woman I've Wanted by Sandra Martz. Papier-Mache Press, 1994
Bird Feeder
From: No Pine Tree in This Forest Is Perfect. Sleepy Hollow, NY: Slapering Hol Press,1997
Last Modified: May 6, 2003
To Explain
From: Divine Honors, Wesleyan University Press, 1997
Now Only One of Us Remains
From: Her Soul Beneath the Bone. University of Illinois Press, 1988
Repair
From: Divine Honors, Wesleyan University Press, 1997
What I Want
From: No Pine Tree in This Forest Is Perfect. Sleepy Hollow, NY: Slapering Hol Press, 1997