Year of Morphines: Poems

by Betsy Brown

Book Overview

Betsy Brown is no stranger to loss. Breast cancer runs rampant in her family; both her mother and her thirty-two-year-old sister died of the disease, and another sister has been diagnosed with its late stages. Her father also fell victim to cancer, this time pancreatic. The poems in Brown's stunning first book pivot around the mechanisms we use in facing loss and fear--whether those confrontations are as wrenching as a bone marrow transplant or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807127833
• ISBN13: 9780807127834
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 9.2"