Diary of Our Fatal Illness

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book Diary of Our Fatal Illness by Charles Bardes, University of Chicago Press
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Author: Charles Bardes ISBN: 9780226468167
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Publication: March 21, 2017
Imprint: University of Chicago Press Language: English
Author: Charles Bardes
ISBN: 9780226468167
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication: March 21, 2017
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Language: English

This moving prose poem tells the story of an aged man who suffers a prolonged and ultimately fatal illness. From initial diagnosis to remission to relapse to death, the experience is narrated by the man’s son, a practicing doctor. Charles Bardes, a physician and poet, draws on years of experience with patients and sickness to construct a narrative that links myth, diverse metamorphoses, and the modern mechanics of death. We stand with the doctors, the family, and, above all, a sick man and his disease as their voices are artfully crafted into a new and powerful language of illness.

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This moving prose poem tells the story of an aged man who suffers a prolonged and ultimately fatal illness. From initial diagnosis to remission to relapse to death, the experience is narrated by the man’s son, a practicing doctor. Charles Bardes, a physician and poet, draws on years of experience with patients and sickness to construct a narrative that links myth, diverse metamorphoses, and the modern mechanics of death. We stand with the doctors, the family, and, above all, a sick man and his disease as their voices are artfully crafted into a new and powerful language of illness.

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