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A Hospital Odyssey

By Lewis , Gwyneth

Book information

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Year
2015
ISBN
9781780372013, 1780372019
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1049989 bytes)
Pages
228 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Cancer--Patients--Family relationships;Epic poetryEnglish;Poetry;Cancer -- Patients -- Family relati

Description

Cover; Description; Title Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; BOOK 1; BOOK 2; BOOK 3; BOOK 4; BOOK 5; BOOK 6; BOOK 7; BOOK 8; BOOK 9; BOOK 10; BOOK 11; BOOK 12; Notes; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Copyright.;?A Hospital Odyssey is an outrageously imaginative voyage through illness and healing. Drawing on the most recent biomedical research into stem cells and cancer, the poem is a journey through the body's inner space and the strange habitats created by disease, including the chimeras people see when they're unwell. Maris, whose husband, Hardy, has been diagnosed with cancer, is separated from him. Her mythical journey leads though a surreal landscape, peopled by true and false physicians, god-celebrities, rabid statues, diseases hunting healthy bodies and a microbes holding their annual ball. T.

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