Fashioning a remarkable and truly original account of an octogenarian father's two-year battle with cancer, Bardes tells a powerful, allusive, and richly layered human fable about our common and 'fatal metamorphosis.'
Michael Collier, author of An Individual History Winner, 2017
New Georgia Literary Arts Achievement Award Poet and physician Charles Bardes presents a work of prose poetry with elements of ... Read moreeulogy, ode, and tragedy as he follows his father's grievous two-year battle with cancer....In this challenging book of a father and son confronting disease and death, Bardes questions closely what it means for life to lend itself to death.
Booklist 2018 Winner
New Georgia Literary Achievement Award (now the Blackwell Prize in Writing) In his Diary in the form of a prose poem, Charles Bardes traces the works and days of a twilit ordeal of love and suffering. With Ovidian power and moral clarity, he tells how a man of the sea is given over to fire and a father and son are annealed.
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