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Almost Home Free: A Collection of Poetry About the Cancer Journey
A wonderful collection of poems about the journey of a cancer patient. Jean Trounstine takes us through a year of horror, treatment and healing -- touching, luminous, provocative and source of comfort. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand what their loved ones go through.
89 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2003
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About the author
Jean Trounstine
10 books4 followersI am an activist, author and professor emerita at Middlesex Community College in Lowell, Massachusetts and my latest book is "Boy With A Knife: A Story of Murder, Remorse, and a Prisoner’s Fight for Justice" (IG Publishing April, 2016). It explores the true story of Karter Kane Reed and the injustice of sentencing juveniles to adult prisons.
I worked at Framingham Women’s Prison for ten years where I directed eight plays with prisoners. My book about that work, "Shakespeare Behind Bars: The Power of Drama in a Women’s Prison" has been featured on NPR, The Connection, Here and Now, and in numerous print publications here and abroad. In addition, I've spoken around the world on women in prison, co-founded the women’s branch of Changing Lives Through Literature, an award-winning alternative sentencing program featured in The New York Times and on The Today Show, and co-authored two books about the program. I published a book of poetry, "Almost Home Free," and co-edited the New England best-seller," Why I’m Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out On Love, Loss, Sex, and Who Does the Dishes." I am also on the steering committee of the Coalition for Effective Public Safety in Massachusetts.
When I'm not spinning or with friends and family, I take apart the criminal justice system brick by brick for magazines and blogs such as Boston Magazine, Truthout.org, the Rag Blog and Huffington Post.
I worked at Framingham Women’s Prison for ten years where I directed eight plays with prisoners. My book about that work, "Shakespeare Behind Bars: The Power of Drama in a Women’s Prison" has been featured on NPR, The Connection, Here and Now, and in numerous print publications here and abroad. In addition, I've spoken around the world on women in prison, co-founded the women’s branch of Changing Lives Through Literature, an award-winning alternative sentencing program featured in The New York Times and on The Today Show, and co-authored two books about the program. I published a book of poetry, "Almost Home Free," and co-edited the New England best-seller," Why I’m Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out On Love, Loss, Sex, and Who Does the Dishes." I am also on the steering committee of the Coalition for Effective Public Safety in Massachusetts.
When I'm not spinning or with friends and family, I take apart the criminal justice system brick by brick for magazines and blogs such as Boston Magazine, Truthout.org, the Rag Blog and Huffington Post.
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March 15, 2021
Anyone who will, is, or has passed through the breast cancer journey will read Jean Troustine's poetry saying "Yes, this is what is true and real in the midst of the voices, the machines, the stillness, the tears, the denial, the hope." Thank you to those who will walk, are walking and have always walked beside us. These poems will help you absorb the experience when we can't express our thoughts in the moment. Thank you Jean, for making what has no rhyme or reason into deep flowing waters that renew and inspire.
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