A collection of prose poems that chronicles the family life of two
cancer survivors. Dan O’Brien’s powerful companion to Our
Cancers catalogs the recovery of a cancer survivor, whose wife has
recently survived her own cancer, as he returns to his daily life
while raising a young daughter. This prose-poem sequence is a true
survivor’s notebook, using photos and the tools of memoir to
evoke how disaster can constellate our past, present, and future.
In his poems, plays, and nonfiction, Dan O’Brien has explored, as
he says in a 2023 interview, “how trauma shatters identity, and
in its aftermath we reconfigure and rewrite, as it were, the story
of who we were and are and maybe will be.” In highly personal
poems reminiscent of dramatic monologues, as well as shorter lyric
fragments, the protagonist reconsiders the people and places he
knew before his illness, including his estranged family and others
with cancer. While looking back he moves forward again, resuming
his career as a writer and teacher, revisiting Ireland, and making
a kind of pilgrimage to the Holy Land. There is a confiding and at
times comical tone in these poems as O’Brien awakens to the
delights, absurdities, and wonders of existence, and as he and his
wife work through the aftershocks of their trauma toward a deeper
love. With text and image, Survivor’s Notebook shows how we go
on, with resilience, gratitude, and joy, when “the emergency’s
elsewhere” now.
General
| Imprint: |
Acre Books
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| Firstpublished: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Dan O'Brien
|
| Pages: |
116 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-946724-63-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-946724-63-7 |
| Barcode: |
9781946724632 |
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