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The Undying (book)
''The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care'' is a 2019 memoir by the American author, poet, and essayist Anne Boyer. The book chronicles Boyer's experience as a breast cancer patient. Boyer takes an untraditional approach to the standard illness narrative, by weaving together her personal journey as a patient in treatment with reflections on art and literature, and Criticism of capitalism, critiques of capitalism and the medical industry. The book won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, and was a finalist for the PEN American Center, PEN America's PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, Jean Stein Book Award. The Pulitzer committee described the book as "an elegant and unforgettable narrative about the brutality of illness and the capitalism of cancer care in America." Synopsis At the age of 41, Anne Boyer is diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer. She is a teacher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Boyer
Anne Boyer (born 1973) is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of ''The Romance of Happy Workers'' (2008), ''The 2000s'' (2009), ''My Common Heart'' (2011), '' Garments Against Women'' (2015), ''The Handbook of Disappointed Fate'' (2018), and '' The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care'' (2019). In 2016, she was a featured blogger at the Poetry Foundation, where she wrote an ongoing series of posts about her diagnosis and treatment for a highly aggressive form of breast cancer, as well as the lives and near deaths of poets. Her essays about illness have appeared in ''Guernica, The New Inquiry, Fullstop'', and more. Boyer teaches at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Her poetry, essays, and books have been translated into numerous languages including Icelandic, Spanish, Chinese, French, Hungarian, Persian, and Swedish. With Guillermo Parra and Cassandra Gillig, she has translated the work of 20t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
