Cancer Songs - Sommer, Richard
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A writer's response to diagnosis and treatment for prostate cancer, the pieces making up this verse journal are best described as spoken songs. Often, these are songs of refusal to go under, to surrender to the undertow of the disease. Songs of newly discovered yearning, courage and awe. There is no discounting the pain and suffering in the process, but as many ?victims? of cancer experience, there can also be a heightening, a vividness and intensity of perception, a kind of awakening.

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A writer's response to diagnosis and treatment for prostate cancer, the pieces making up this verse journal are best described as spoken songs. Often, these are songs of refusal to go under, to surrender to the undertow of the disease. Songs of newly discovered yearning, courage and awe. There is no discounting the pain and suffering in the process, but as many ?victims? of cancer experience, there can also be a heightening, a vividness and intensity of perception, a kind of awakening.
Autorenporträt
Richard Sommer taught myth and poetry at Montreal's Concordia University for many years, served three decades as a volunteer game warden in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, and led a citizens' environmental group in a seven-year battle, ultimately successful, to save the Townships' Pinnacle Mountain from developers. Sommer's books include Homage to Mr. Macmullin, Blue Sky Notebook, left hand mind, Milarepa, The Other Side of Games, Selected and New Poems, Fawn Bones, The Shadow Sonnets, and Cancer Songs. In 2004, Sommer was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and the verse journal Cancer Songs was an important part of his response to this challenge.