The Third Star: Poems - Couverture souple

Farrell, Jody

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0692606424 ISBN 13 : 9780692606421

Editeur : Armsmere Press, 2016

Synopsis

The death of one's child is an experience all parents fear. This fear became reality for poet Jody Farrell. Jody's son, Steve, died at age 38 from AIDS. He had contracted the retrovirus sometime in 1979, before the international medical community had isolated and identified the virus responsible for the alarming rise of previously rarely-seen and deadly maladies striking gay men in the early '80s. Steve's had been a beautiful life of extraordinary good health, athleticism, and amazing professional achievements. Steve remained healthy and strong; hiking, camping, riding his racing bicycle a hundred miles a day and working in the burgeoning computer industry until mid-1989 when his T-cell count plummeted below 200 and he was diagnosed with the onset of AIDS. His decline was rapid and his death came in October of that year. His mother, Jody, nursed and cared for him through this time. In her grief, Jody processed her pain through writing and sharing her experience with others. Her beautiful poems, stark, honest, and poignant, tell of how a mother survives the loss of her beloved child.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jody Farrell was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1924 and has lived, worked and raised her family in California since after WWII. She raised seven children (and has ten grandchildren), had a long career as the director of an outpatient mental health agency, is a published poet and short story writer, and is now retired and living in Marin County, CA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Armsmere Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0692606424
• ISBN 13: 9780692606421
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 68
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