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- Divine Honors
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry Program
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Winner of the Nebraska Book Award for Poetry (2002)
This elegant and moving collection documents Hilda Raz's experience with breast cancer. The journey, from diagnosis to chemotherapy to mastectomy, from denial to humor to grief and rage, is ultimately one of courage and creativity. The poems themselves are accessible and finely wrought. They are equally testaments to Raz's insistence on making an order out of chaos, of finding ways to create and understand and eventually accept new definitions of good and evil, health, blame, personal boundaries — in short, a new sense of self. These poems remain intimately bound to the world and of the senses, becoming documents of transformation.
Table of Contents
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- Prologue
- I
- Weathering/boundaries/what is good
- pp. 12-13
- To Explain
- p. 14
- Fish—Belly—Mound
- p. 17
- Getting Well
- p. 19
- Day-Old Bargain
- pp. 22-23
- Breast/fever
- pp. 24-25
- II
- Sarah's Response
- p. 29
- Sarah Among Animals
- p. 30
- Sarah's Head
- p. 31
- Sarah Fledging
- p. 32
- Sarah's Waltz
- pp. 33-34
- III
- Mapping/Bleating
- pp. 46-47
- Sow Sister
- p. 50
- Bernini's Ribbon
- p. 51
- Petting the Scar
- pp. 52-53
- Teaching, Hurt
- pp. 54-55
- IV
- Chigger Socks
- p. 61
- Cobb's Hill Pond
- pp. 64-65
- Mutation Blues
- p. 74
- Insomnia Again
- pp. 75-76
- V
- Terror: A Riddle
- p. 85
- Lincoln, Nebraska
- p. 87
- Epilogue
- Gloxinia/Flicker/Oxalis
- pp. 97-98
- My Award/The Jews of Lukow
- pp. 100-103
- Acknowledgments
- p. 107
Additional Information
ISBN
9780819572134
Related ISBN(s)
9780819522481
MARC Record
OCLC
48139311
Pages
117
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No