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Broken Cup

Broken Cup - Paperback

by Margaret Gibson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Margaret GibsonPublish date:2014-09-08Pages:88
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807156421ISBN-10:807156426UPC:9780807156421Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:9.19 x 6.07 x 0.24 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCFPY3J2GH

Broken Cup brings breathtaking eloquence to what Margaret Gibson describes as "traveling the Way of Alzheimer's" with her husband, poet David McKain. After his initial and tentative diagnosis, Gibson suspended her writing for two years; but then poetry returned, and the creative process became the lightning rod that grounded her and presented a path forward. The poems in Broken Cup bear witness to how Alzheimer's erodes memory and cognitive function, but they never forget to see what is present and to ask what may remain of the self.

Moving and unflinchingly honest in the acknowledgment of pain, frustration, and grief, the poems uncover, time and time again, the grace of abiding love. Gibson gives heart as well as voice to an experience that is deeply personal, yet shared by all too many.
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807156421ISBN-10:807156426UPC:9780807156421Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:9.19 x 6.07 x 0.24 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCFPY3J2GH
Margaret Gibson is the author of ten books of poems and one prose memoir. A native of Virginia, now a resident of Preston, Connecticut, she is a nationally and internationally recognized poet. She has received numerous honors, including the Connecticut Book Award and the Melville Kane Award, and her collection The Vigil was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry.
Publisher: LSU Press

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