The Cancer Poetry Project: Poems by Cancer Patients and Those Who Love Them

by Karin B. Miller

Book Overview

A single poem -- heart-rending, fearful, raging, beautiful, grotesque, even hilarious -- lets us know we're not alone in dealing with cancer. This was the idea that launched The Cancer Poetry Project... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1577491009
• ISBN13: 9781577491002
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Fairview Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Yes, the best is yet ahead

No one underestimates the difficulty of cancer, but no one should underestimate the joy and optimism that this wonderful book will impart to anyone who is involved in any way with cancer, either personally or with a loved one or friend. As the saying goes, "there is strength in numbers," and strength will be gained from the messages in these poems.

Finding Comfort in not being alone

My mother is a breast cancer survivor! I found Miller's book a comfort in that I realized I was not alone in learning to navigate the language and the emotions associated with supporting a family member with cancer.

Hopeful & Affirming

The Cancer Poetry Project offered me hope and affirmed feelings I have experienced. It is a book for survivors, caregivers, friends and clinicians. I felt inspired by the poetry and the profile of each author. I also thought the book was REAL. Authentic people writing about raw emotions as each is on her own journey.

Emotional, honest and hopeful!

The roller-coaster of emotions on the cancer journey for patents and their loved ones are captured here in vivid detail. I was overcome by tears, saddened by the struggles of the poets, heartened by survivors who keep on with life as they are able. I have to read it in small pieces, and chew over the words, feel the feelings, and reflect on my own life through the poetry found within. For me, a breast cancer survivor, this book is daily reading! The poems are written by beginners and professionals, short and long, some heavy, some light in their words. Equally compelling are the biographies/stories of the authors from around the United States. I encourage you all to read it, whether you know someone with cancer of any other chronic illness or not--and give as a gift to those who struggle with those illnesses. It is full of hope in the midst of loss, of encouragement for the bad days, and of light in the midst of the dark unknown that cancer is for so many.

A NECESSARY book for everyone touched by cancer

From I ENTERED THE ROOM, NAKED on the first page to WALK ME INTO THE MORNING on the last, this marvelous book compels the reader to enter its pages, to go step by step through the book, one poem at a time, to feel the joy, the hope, the anger, the terrible sorrow, the wonder and even the humor of those who crafted the poems: cancer patients and survivors, their friends and family members, doctors and nurses and others who find poetry to be the best way to speak of their experiences and their deepest feelings.You will need to buy more than one of these books: one for yourself, and others to share with those in your life who need to read it; you will know who they are.