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Now I Lay Me Down to Fight
A Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer
14,78 € |
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Verlag: | IVP Academic |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 14.11.2023 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781514008003 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 96 |
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Beschreibungen
In stirring verse and essays, Katy Bowser Hutson chronicles her battle with breast cancer and the complications of faith amid such a fight. Accentuated by the art of Jodi Hays, Katy's words lead us through the realization of cancer, the experience of chemotherapy and a mastectomy, relentless rounds of radiation, the uncertainty of ongoing treatment, and what comes after survival. She writes in resistance to sickness, of wrestling toward beauty:
Cancer is an overgrowth, a kudzu: Tangling and strangling legitimate life.
Chemo is a killing, a burning out:
Burning down to ashy carbon, indiscriminately
But cancer, did you know that I am a poet?
Through it all, she shows what it means to struggle in a battered body and to pray to a God who is near to the broken. Join her in this consideration of mortality and witness her persisting trust in God's unseen ways.
Cancer is an overgrowth, a kudzu: Tangling and strangling legitimate life.
Chemo is a killing, a burning out:
Burning down to ashy carbon, indiscriminately
But cancer, did you know that I am a poet?
Through it all, she shows what it means to struggle in a battered body and to pray to a God who is near to the broken. Join her in this consideration of mortality and witness her persisting trust in God's unseen ways.
<p>Foreword by Tish Harrison Warren<br />
Preface: The Week Before Cancer<br />
1. Beginning<br />
2. Chemotheraphy<br />
3. Mastectomy<br />
4. Radiation<br />
5. The Finish Line Moved<br />
6. After<br />
7. How should I end this book, when we all have different endings?<br />
Acknowledgments</p>
Preface: The Week Before Cancer<br />
1. Beginning<br />
2. Chemotheraphy<br />
3. Mastectomy<br />
4. Radiation<br />
5. The Finish Line Moved<br />
6. After<br />
7. How should I end this book, when we all have different endings?<br />
Acknowledgments</p>
Katy Bowser Hutson is a forming member of the children's band Rain for Roots. She is the coauthor with Tish Harrison Warren and Flo Paris Oakes of Little Prayers for Ordinary Days, and a contributing author to It Was Good: Making Music to the Glory of God and Wild Things and Castles in the Sky. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, Kenny, and their two children.