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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Bardes, Charles
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| Publisher: |
University of Chicago Press
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| Date: |
03/21/2017
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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This moving prose poem tells the story of an aged man who suffers a prolonged and ultimately fatal illness. From initial diagnosis to remission to relapse to death, the experience is narrated by the man's son, a practicing doctor. Charles Bardes, a physician and poet, draws on years of experience with patients and sickness to construct a narrative that links myth, diverse metamorphoses, and the modern mechanics of death. We stand with the doctors, the family, and, above all, a sick man and his disease as their voices are artfully crafted into a new and powerful language of illness.
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