Diary of Our Fatal Illness

Informationen zum Autor Charles Bardes is an internal medicine specialist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and professor of clinical medicine and associate dean at Weill Cornell Medical College. His books include Pale Faces: The Masks of Anemia , and his poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Agni , Ploughshares , and Raritan . Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Bardes
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9780226468020
• ISBN: 978-0-226-46802-0
• No. of pages: 64
• Series: Phoenix Poets; Phoenix Poets (Paperback); Phoenix Poets; Phoenix Poets (Paperback); Phoenix Poets (CHUP)
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets