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“My son’s illness is eight years old and has no name. It started when he was fourteen. He is now twenty-two. It is taking away his ability to walk and to reason. It is getting worse, some years more rapidly than others.” read more
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risk A verse
July 13, 2007
A few months ago, I read from Blue Peninsula at Mayo Clinic and then at the College of William and Mary. It was as if the book, its poetry, and I were in the middle, between two half-conversations exciting to imagine whole: on one side, physicians and medical professionals, and on the other, patients and families. The poems were a vortex intensifying and focusing vital discussions and clearing the space to allow them to happen. read more