Cancer poetry
By: Iain Twiddy, Hokkaido University, Japan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781137361998
Subjects: Cancer patients in literature; Cancer in literature; Cancer patients' writings, American; American poetry; History and criticism; Cancer patients' writings, English; English poetry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cancer poetry: an introduction; title: Spousal cancer: the flowering of grief; title: Parental cancer: the functions of repression; title: Locating breast cancer; title: Surviving cancer; title: Terminal words: conversing with cancer; title: Paul Muldoon: cancer and the ethics of representation; title: Fierce verse: cancer and imaginative redress; title: Remission.