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Now I Lay Me Down to Fight: A Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer
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CancerChristian LivingGeneral Poetry
Publisher Price: $18.99
ISBN13: 9781514007990
Publisher: IVP
Published: Nov 14 2023
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.10 Depth: 6.70
Language: English
In stirring verse and essays, Katy Bowser Hutson chronicles her battle with breast cancer and the complications of faith amid such a fight. Accentuated by the art of Jodi Hays, Katy's words lead us through the realization of cancer, the experience of chemotherapy and a mastectomy, relentless rounds of radiation, the uncertainty of ongoing treatment, and what comes after survival. She writes in resistance to sickness, of wrestling toward beauty:
Cancer is an overgrowth, a kudzu: Tangling and strangling legitimate life.
Chemo is a killing, a burning out:
Burning down to ashy carbon, indiscriminately
But cancer, did you know that I am a poet?
Through it all, she shows what it means to struggle in a battered body and to pray to a God who is near to the broken. Join her in this consideration of mortality and witness her persisting trust in God's unseen ways.
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