Diary of Our Fatal Illness

Download or read book Diary of Our Fatal Illness written by Charles Bardes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This moving prose poem tells the story of an aged man who suffers a prolonged and ultimately fatal illness. From initial diagnosis to remission to relapse to death, the experience is narrated by the man’s son, a practicing doctor. Charles Bardes, a physician and poet, draws on years of experience with patients and sickness to construct a narrative that links myth, diverse metamorphoses, and the modern mechanics of death. We stand with the doctors, the family, and, above all, a sick man and his disease as their voices are artfully crafted into a new and powerful language of illness.