In this harrowing and endearing collection of poems concerning his wife's dementia, Rennie McQuilkin pulls no punches but describes in stark and graphic terms the havoc that Alzheimer's can wreak in the life of the afflicted person and all those in her immediate and extended family. But he also shows that a deepening of love can grow from what might otherwise seem like total devastation. The gains described here make this an inspiring book from which readers will derive hope and resilience in whatever battles they fight.

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	82
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Antrim House
Fecha de Publicación	2023-03-10
Dimensiones	9.0" x 6.0" x 0.2" pulgadas
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No
Temas	Salud y Condición Física, Salud y Condición Física, Salud y Condición Física, Salud y Condición Física, Salud y Condición Física, Salud y Condición Física

McQuilkin, Rennie

"Rennie McQuilkin was Poet Laureate of Connecticut from 2015 to 2018. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, The American Scholar, and elsewhere. This is his twenty-first poetry collection. He has received a number of awards for his work, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Connecticut Center for the Book. In 2010 his volume of new and selected poems, The Weathering, was awarded the Center's annual poetry prize under the aegis of the Library of Congress; and in 2018, North of Eden received the Next Generation Indie Book Award in Poetry. For nine years he directed the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, which he co-founded at Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT. In 2018, he and his wife of sixty-two years - artist, teacher, counselor, and gardener Sarah McQuilkin - moved to the Seabury retirement community in Bloomfield, CT. They are the parents of three wonderful children. Unhappily, Sarah passed away on January 30, 2023."