Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths
Journal: Spectrum Research Repository (Concordia University)
Year: 2014

ABSTRACT&#13;\n&#13;\nTwo Tragedies in 429 Breaths&#13;\n&#13;\nSusan Paddon&#13;\n&#13;\nTwo Tragedies in 429 Breaths is a book-length poem series exploring the experience of loss through engagement with the works of Anton Chekhov. The poems are told from the perspective of a daughter who reads Chekhov obsessively while spending a spring and summer caring for her mother, who is dying from pulmonary fibrosis—a respiratory disease that affects the body not unlike TB. Like Anne Carson’s The Glass