Cancer Songs

by Richard Sommer

A moving journal in verse, Cancer Songs is poet Richard Sommer's response to his diagnosis and treatment for prostate cancer. Often, these are songs of newly discovered yearning, courage and awe; they are songs of refusal to go under, to surrender to the undertow of the disease.

There is no discounting the pain and suffering in the process, but as many "victims" of cancer know, there can also be a heightened intensity of perception,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1897109547
• ISBN13: 9781897109540
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Signature Editions
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 8.8"