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The Cancer Journals is a very personal account and documentation of Lorde's battle with breast cancer. It examines the journey Lorde takes to integrate her experience with cancer into her identity. [4] It consists of three parts with pieces from journal entries and essays written between 1977 and 1979. [1]
In 1966, Reed took some of Clifton's poems to Langston Hughes, who included them in the second edition of his anthology The Poetry of the Negro (1970). In 1967, the Cliftons moved to Baltimore, Maryland. [7] Her first poetry collection, Good Times, was published in 1969, and listed by The New York Times as one of the
In recent years, Vaughn has overcome both kidney and breast cancer [3] Vaughn was friends with late country singer Loretta Lynn, whom she met through the Wilburn brothers in the 1960s. They bonded over similar writing styles and collaborated throughout their careers. Vaughn helped write Lynn's Grammy-nominated 2004 song "Miss Being Mrs. Lynn". [3]
Sally's breast cancer story. Two years after Flynn's diagnosis, her younger sister Sally Peterson learned that she also had breast cancer. ... it has brought us closer,” the 50-year-old said ...
Mirabell: Books of Number is a volume of poetry by James Merrill (1926–1995) published by Atheneum Books in 1978.It is the second of three books which together form the epic 560-page poem, The Changing Light at Sandover, which was published as a whole in 1982.
Anne Boyer (born 1973) is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of The Romance of Happy Workers (2008), [1] The 2000s (2009), [2] My Common Heart (2011), [3] Garments Against Women (2015), [4] The Handbook of Disappointed Fate (2018), [5] and The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care (2019).
[21]: 61 [23] Leopold believes that the book, For Katharine Coman's Family and Innermost Circle of Friends, is the first breast cancer narrative in American literature. [21]: 61 Near the end of Coman's life, the two women exchanged loving farewells through reciting poems and psalms to each other.
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