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From the PREFACE by Fredericka A. Jacks, publisher: These writers
recall not only the suffering but also the courage demonstrated by
those who are sick and by those who participate in their illness.
The writings consistently reminded us, in some ways, of Paul
Tillich's expression (and the title to one of his books), the
courage to be. In many of these writings the reader will be grasped
by the human need for connection and the desire for existential
meaning when confronted with pain and suffering. In pain we suffer
a fear of non-existence and want to forget, but in the anxiety of
forgetting we risk denying life. From the FOREWORD by John F.
Lennon: PAIN AND MEMORY refuses to shy away from looking at those
tender moments of pain. Whether it is unflinchingly writing about
the moment of death ("Mack the Hermit") or trying to come to grips
with the loss of a loved one ("Cartography") or the reeling that
happens at the end of a relationship ("Heartless") or attempting to
understand an injury ("After the Accident") or finding the exact
words to discuss the feeling of being abandoned ("Kiribiri"), this
anthology does not Hollywoodize pain or sanitize its imprint on
those who are affected by it. Instead, these stories pull back the
gauze that hides the day to day wounds of our lives and, with
surgical precision, allows us to viscerally experience them. In the
process, what this anthology will allow us to do as readers is
revisit our own stories that we comfortably tell and retell,
forcing us to dissect our own memories under the harsh light of
truth. And if we are brave enough to look at this pain, as these
authors do, what we might discover is a strength that reveals
itself at the core of our humanity. After all, if it is true that
from our birth to our death we are wrestling with pain, then, as
these stories can attest, we are also spending every second of this
time persevering as well.
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