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Informationen zum Autor Moira Linehan is the author of If No Moon , winner of the 2006 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition and an Honor Book in Poetry in the 2008 Massachusetts Book Awards. Her poetry has appeared in America , Crab Orchard Review , Greensboro Review , Notre Dame Review , Poetry East , Quiddity , Salamander , Southwest Review , Image , Prairie Schooner , and many others. Klappentext In this collection, poet Moira Linehan explores, questions, and ultimately celebrates her attempt to live in the temple of the present. After learning she has breast cancer, the poet struggles to live an examined life. Alienated and estranged from her own body, she turns her cancer into "these binoculars, / this new way of looking”, and uses it as a way of fixing herself firmly within the moment. Zusammenfassung In this collection, poet Moira Linehan explores, questions, and ultimately celebrates her attempt to live in the temple of the present. After learning she has breast cancer, the poet struggles to live an examined life. Alienated and estranged from her own body, she turns her cancer into “these binoculars, / this new way of looking”, and uses it as a way of fixing herself firmly within the moment.
