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The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes

By Sophie Collins

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About the book

In The Cancer Journals Audre Lorde wrote, `I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilise into yet another silence, not to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience, openly acknowledged and examined.' Founded on this same principle, The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes was written in the three months following Dutch writer Lieke Marsman's cancer diagnosis.A series of short poems anchored by an essay that speaks directly to Lorde's journal entries...Show more

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9781786942135

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Published year

2019

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1

Original title

The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes

Format

Paperback

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