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Live Through This: poems
One woman's experience with cancer, told in free verse narratives of "ruthless beauty" that "first sear, then heal." Each poem is accompanied by an expressionist drawing by Janet Snell.
62 pages, Paperback
First published March 6, 2014
About the author
Cheryl Snell
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When I married into a Hindu Brahmin family, I began to write seriously as a way to penetrate the protocol of another culture. My novels, Shiva's Arms and Rescuing Ranu explore South Indian life, particularly the stage referred to as samsara.The term haunted me for awhile— samsara--the sibilance of a word that can connote drowning. I had been reading Indian writers—Lahiri, Desai, Divakaruni-- and was drawn to the stories of immigrant families thrashing in their domestic seas. The plight of characters who straddle two continents, the lives they make here, and the families they leave behind, raised the question: when one belongs to two cultures, which part of a divided self goes, and what stays? It's a recurring question in my work.
Besides my novels, I have written eight other books. Most recently, my poetry was chosen by Dorianne Laux for inclusion in the Best of the Net Anthology, and one of my collections of poetry, Prisoner's Dilemma, won the Lopside Press Chapbook Competition. When I'm not writing, I like to cook in the Indian idiom, and I play a mean classical piano.
When I married into a Hindu Brahmin family, I began to write seriously as a way to penetrate the protocol of another culture. My novels, Shiva's Arms and Rescuing Ranu explore South Indian life, particularly the stage referred to as samsara.The term haunted me for awhile— samsara--the sibilance of a word that can connote drowning. I had been reading Indian writers—Lahiri, Desai, Divakaruni-- and was drawn to the stories of immigrant families thrashing in their domestic seas. The plight of characters who straddle two continents, the lives they make here, and the families they leave behind, raised the question: when one belongs to two cultures, which part of a divided self goes, and what stays? It's a recurring question in my work.
Besides my novels, I have written eight other books. Most recently, my poetry was chosen by Dorianne Laux for inclusion in the Best of the Net Anthology, and one of my collections of poetry, Prisoner's Dilemma, won the Lopside Press Chapbook Competition. When I'm not writing, I like to cook in the Indian idiom, and I play a mean classical piano.
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January 14, 2020The titles of the poems in this collection highlight elements that surprised me as I went through my experiences with cancer. The disease strikes one in seven women, and I hope this volume makes them feel less alone.
Catastrophe’s Cusp
Know
Grief
Bad Fit
Neither Nor
Advance Directive
Anesthesia
Operating Theater
Waiting
Recovery Room
Scar
Radiation
Aggressive Treatment
Blink
Circle Theory
Afterimage
Reading the Scan
Recurrence
No Second Acts
Unravel
Alternate Therapies
Faith
Survivorship
Support Group
Late Effects
Anniversary of Our Narrow Escape
Where We Started
Catastrophe’s Cusp
Know
Grief
Bad Fit
Neither Nor
Advance Directive
Anesthesia
Operating Theater
Waiting
Recovery Room
Scar
Radiation
Aggressive Treatment
Blink
Circle Theory
Afterimage
Reading the Scan
Recurrence
No Second Acts
Unravel
Alternate Therapies
Faith
Survivorship
Support Group
Late Effects
Anniversary of Our Narrow Escape
Where We Started
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