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The Cancer Journals is a 1980 book of non-fiction by poet and activist Audre Lorde.It deals with her struggle with breast cancer and relates it to her strong advocacy and identity in certain social issues such as lesbian, civil rights, and feminist issues.
In 2004, Silver was pregnant and teaching at Mercer University when she was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer. She gave birth to her son Noah and had a mastectomy. The cancer remained, and her coping with it, along with her son and husband, intensified her poetry. Silver died at age 49 in Macon, Georgia, on August 6, 2018. [7]
She died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [3] in 1924 of breast cancer. Heard's poem "Black Sampson" as included in the anthology She Wields a Pen: American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century edited by Janet Gray.
The Cancer Journals (1980) and A Burst of Light (1988) both use non-fiction prose, including essays and journal entries, to bear witness to, explore, and reflect on Lorde's diagnosis, treatment, recovery from breast cancer, and ultimately fatal recurrence with liver metastases.
Kirkpatrick is a breast cancer survivor and writes about her experience in her 2011 poetry collection, Unaccountable Weather. She is an English professor at Appalachian State University . Her profile on the university's English Department webpage lists her specialties as poetry and poetics, Irish literature and culture, ecocriticism and ...
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000 In 2000, Clifton published this book, which compiles four of her previous collections along with new poems. The book delves into Clifton's personal fight against breast cancer as well as involves itself with mythology, religion, and the legacy of slavery.
In 2018-2019 she was the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at the University of Cambridge, [13] and in 2023 she was the Louis D. Rubin Jr. Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University. [14] Her diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer has become the subject of her current work, examining the intersection of social class and medical care. [15]
Diagnosed with breast cancer, she underwent mastectomies in 1952 and 1953. Shortly before her death in 1954, a series of her poems were printed in Tanka kenkyū and Tanka magazines with the recommendation of writer Yasunari Kawabata, and her first book, the collection Chibusa sōshitsu (乳房喪失, Losing My Breasts), was published. [1]