To Come to Light: Perspectives on Chronic Illness in Modern Literature

Poetry. "This anthology is about people with illnesses, illnesses that don't go away, illnesses that are companions to death"-Ed Wagner, M.D. "The poetry and prose in this anthology reveal the experience of patients and caregivers of the chronically ill in multiple illuminations" -Amy E. Bonomi, from the Introduction. Includes work by Leo Tolstoy, Naomi Shihab Nye, Raymond carver, Sherman Alexie, Vincent Van Gogh, Jane Kenyon, George Eliot, Dave Eggers and others.Bonomi, Amy is the author of 'To Come to Light: Perspectives on Chronic Illness in Modern Literature', published 2005 under ISBN 9780972020503 and ISBN 0972020500.