FrankenTit

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

185 kr

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Beskrivning

What do you do when you discover you have breast cancer on your birthday just as you’re about to start a new job?Rose Drew knew what to do. Write. Laugh. Cry. Spread the word. Do it. Have the last word. Share.Be as bemused as it takes to breathe again. "Ordinarily, I loathe the notion of "battling” cancer or "fighting" this disease. No darling.The fight will be against insurance, fear, crap doctors, funding, and time.Put on your Boudica Face and get in there." This poetry collection poetry cathartically charts Rose Drew’s personal experiences of the condition, its treatment, mastectomy and its impact on life, memory and unusual practicalities. With a fistful of humour, Rose Drew throws down the gauntlet to cancer itself. She’s not laughing at the experience, she’s breathing rhythmically through every line, offering a map to resilience and self-love. FrankenTit is as empowering as it is heartrending, as hilarious as it is profound, as candid an ogle into the human soul at a time of life and death as any scan.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-05
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Carcazan Publishing
Medarbetare:Carcazn Publishing
ISBN:9781738563265

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Dr Rose Drew PhD, FRAI, Cert FA-III is from York UK via Miami USA. She achieved her archaeology doctorate from the University of Winchester, and is a postgraduate of Yale University, and a graduate of other colleges and universities in the UK and the USA. She also attended the University of York. Rose is a performance poet, editor, publisher, teacher, and anthropologist. Lately, she has been working several months a year for an indigenous Band in the Midwestern USA. This little book is about Rose’s medical adventures in mid to late 2024. Rose tends to write about death and skeletons, love and grief, nature and disability. In 2015 she presented a TEDx Pocklington talk ‘Power of the Spoken Word’ on performance poetry, but she swears she doesn’t bang on about it anymore. Really! Rose is tall on the inside.

Innehållsförteckning

Editor’s NoteFrom the AuthorDedication1 My Booby Got Me a Present For My Birthday3 HRT is not for me3 Waiting4 Poltergeist5 It’s Always Something (I’ve already had my worst day) (from 2009)7 Mastectomy8 There’s ‘I’ and there’s TMI10 WTF11 Typecasting12 FrankenTit13 Bear Bait14 Oh get over it16 Untitled 116 Untitled 217 Compartment18 Aim for perfection. Let me know when you arrive19 Saturday Market, Bemidji, July20 Radiation Poems1. Burn It All Down2. Untitled21 3. Internal Monologue4. Fall To The Right23 Space Station24 Lava25 Exile26 Mississippi Headwaters, October27 The Care and Feeding Starving of Your Barbie Tit(s)29 What Went Wrong30 Plot Twist31 Trees Burn32 Tick Tick Tick Tick tick tick tick tick