We’re familiar with the meaning of chronic illness. The most common types are cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, diseases with no known cures. They can often be mitigated and their effects reduced or controlled, but that doesn’t mean they’re eliminated, or that they no longer have to be dealt with and lived with.
The impact of chronic illness on families can be devastating, disrupting and forever changing the patterns of daily life and relationships and often fundamentally changing the relationships themselves. That is what Alison Blevins explores in Where Will We Live if the House Burns Down?: Poems, a collection of 62 untitled prose poems in paragraph form. Collectively, the poems read like a fable of contemporary life.
To continue reading, please see my post day at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Tuesday Readings
A War Over Heaven and Hell – Dana Gioia reviews Paradise Lost: A Biography at The Wall Street Journal.
The states(s) of the world: What a poem can and cannot do – Padraig O Tuama at Poetry Unbound.
Arnold Bennet’s ten step plan for learning to appreciate poetry – Henry Oliver at The Common Reader.
Vanish O Night – poem by Jerry Barrett at Gerald the Writer.
“Whoso List to Hunt,” poem by Sir Thomas Wyatt – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Ocean (excerpt) – poem by Jessica Cohn at Every Day Poems.
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