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Lucy Grealy. Lucinda Margaret Grealy (June 3, 1963 – December 18, 2002) was an Irish-American poet and memoirist who wrote Autobiography of a Face in 1994. This critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and early adolescent experience with cancer of the jaw, which left her with some facial disfigurement.
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).
Ingrid Jonker was born on her maternal grandfather's farm near Douglas, Northern Cape, on 19 September 1933.Shortly before her birth, Ingrid's mother Beatrice and her older sister Anna had left Abraham H. Jonker's house in the Cape Town suburb of Vredehoek, [16] after Abraham Jonker allegedly accused his wife of adultery during an argument and suggested that her unborn daughter was not his child.
Prayers for Sick Family and Friends. 21. "Dear Lord, we come to You today to ask for relief from pain. [Name] is having a hard time and hurting greatly, and we wish to ask for your mercy.
Grace Noll Crowell (October 31, 1877 - March 31, 1969) was an American poet, author of 36 books of inspirational verse and approximately 5,000 poems. [1] Her work has appeared in hundreds of magazines and newspapers.
The speaker of the poem describes the gruesome effects of the gas on the man, and concludes that anyone who sees the reality of war at first hand would not repeat mendacious platitudes such as dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: "How sweet and honourable it is to die for one's country". Owen himself was a soldier who served on the front line ...
Life didn’t stop just because Emily was diagnosed with breast cancer. Six personal challenges aligned with each of her six chemotherapy treatments. A severed bicep, sick dog and more.
The Sick Stockrider is a poem by Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon. It was first published in Colonial Monthly magazine in January 1870, [ 1 ] although the magazine was dated December 1869. It was later in the poet's second and last poetry collection Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).