On the fourteenth anniversary of 9/11-an event that caused their
downtown apartment to become "suffused with the World Trade
Center's carcinogenic dust"-Dan O'Brien's wife discovers a lump in
her breast. Surgery and chemotherapy soon follow, and on the day of
his wife's final infusion, O'Brien learns of his own diagnosis. He
has colon cancer and will need to undergo his own intensive
treatment over the next nine months. Our Cancers is a compelling
account of illness and commitment, of parenthood and partnership.
This spare and powerful sequence creates an intimate mythology that
seeks meaning in illness while also celebrating of the resilience
of sufferers, caregivers, and survivors. As O'Brien explains in an
introduction, "The consecutiveness of our personal disasters, with
a daughter not yet two years old at the start of it, was shattering
and nearly silencing. At hospital bedsides, in hospital beds
myself, and at home through the cyclical assaults of our therapies,
these poems came to me in fragments, as if my unconscious were
attempting to reassemble our lives, our identities and memories . .
. as if I were in some sense learning how to speak again."
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