Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. "This anthology is about people with illnesses, illnesses that don't go away, illnesses that are companions to death"-Ed Wagner, M.D. "The poetry and prose in this anthology reveal the experience of patients and caregivers of the chronically ill in multiple illuminations" -Amy E. Bonomi, from the Introduction. Includes work by Leo Tolstoy, Naomi Shihab Nye, Raymond carver, Sherman Alexie, Vincent Van Gogh, Jane Kenyon, George Eliot, Dave Eggers and others.