Living On the Margins: Women Writers on

In this powerful anthology of personal narratives, essays, shaped journals, and poems, eighteen women writers share their experiences with breast cancerfrom diagnosis and treatment, to aspects of marriage, motherhood, friendship, sexuality, work, and recurrence. Lucille Clifton, Carol Dine, Elaine Greene, Marilyn Hacker, Judith Hall, Safiya Henderson-Holmes, Annette Williams Jaffee, Maxine Kumin, Amy Ling, Claudia MonPere McIsaac, Carole Simmons Oles, Alicia Ostriker, Pamela Post, Hilda Raz, Mimi Schwartz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Sandra Spanier (on Kay Boyle), and Janet Sternberg. Includes an interview with Dr. Susan Love.

Introduction: Writing On the Margins
Cancer Says	p. 3
Off	p. 18
A Design Upon Us	p. 27
St. Peregrinus' Cancer (poem)	p. 37
"C"-ing in Colors	p. 40
The Good Mother	p. 46
White Glasses	p. 57
Lateral Time	p. 76
Interview with Susan Love, M.D.	p. 98
Bone Scan (poem)	p. 112
The Alien Within	p. 114
Getting Well (poem)	p. 134
Flowers, Bones	p. 136
"No communion with despair": Kay Boyle on Cancer	p. 156
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