Broken Cup

by Margaret Gibson and Margaret Gibson

Book Overview

Broken Cup brings breathtaking eloquence to what Margaret Gibson describes as traveling the Way of Alzheimer's with her husband, poet David McKain. After his initial and tentative diagnosis, Gibson suspended her writing for two years; but then poetry returned, and the creative process became the lightning rod that grounded her and presented a path forward. The poems in Broken Cup bear witness to how Alzheimer's erodes memory and cognitive function,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807156426
• ISBN13: 9780807156421
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"