Bardes Charles
Bardes Charles - Diary Of Our Fatal Illness - Paperback
Bardes Charles - Diary Of Our Fatal Illness - Paperback
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Description: This moving prose poem tells the story of an aged man who suffers a prolonged and ultimately fatal illness. From initial diagnosis to remission to relapse to death the experience is narrated by the man's son a practicing doctor. Charles Bardes a physician and poet draws on years of experience with patients and sickness to construct a narrative that links myth diverse metamorphoses and the modern mechanics of death. We stand with the doctors the family and above all a sick man and his disease as their voices are artfully crafted into a new and powerful language of illness.
Title: Diary Of Our Fatal Illness
Author(s): Bardes Charles
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226468020
Pages: 64 Pages
Publication Date: 3/21/2017
Series: Phoenix Poets
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets
Description: This moving prose poem tells the story of an aged man who suffers a prolonged and ultimately fatal illness. From initial diagnosis to remission to relapse to death the experience is narrated by the man's son a practicing doctor. Charles Bardes a physician and poet draws on years of experience with patients and sickness to construct a narrative that links myth diverse metamorphoses and the modern mechanics of death. We stand with the doctors the family and above all a sick man and his disease as their voices are artfully crafted into a new and powerful language of illness.
Title: Diary Of Our Fatal Illness
Author(s): Bardes Charles
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226468020
Pages: 64 Pages
Publication Date: 3/21/2017
Series: Phoenix Poets
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets
