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Radiation Diary: Return to the Sea

Radiation Diary: Return to the Sea

Bargen, Walter

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHealth GeneralGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $15.00

ISBN10: 0991532198
ISBN13: 9780991532193
Publisher: Lamar Univ Pr
Published: Sep 30 2023
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Bargen takes readers along on his personal journey facing a cancer diagnosis and treatment. He writes of the mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical demands he endures. His poetry is honest and raw, but still poignantly beautiful, in spite of the subject matter.


In Radiation Diary, Walter Bargen considers cancer: not just the revolt of the body against the body, but the many ways a difficult diagnosis undoes, then alters, then describes the victim. How, these poems ask, does one achieve balance or purpose as the body seems to proceed toward its own demise? What do balance and purpose mean under these pressures? And what of poetry and of the memories that create poems? I've been a major fan of Bargen's poetry for nearly three decades now. In this, his twenty-sixth book, he is in peak form, writing with fearlessness, humanity, and brilliance about the poet's own body, a navigation chart folded / too many times to find a way out. --Kevin Prufer

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