![]() ![]() You’re suffering through the inevitable and inane cancer-easy-fix suggestions from church acquaintances? Read poem “Advice,” and learn that those irritating fixes come from someone’s “cancer of the character.” His new book of poetry, The Absolute, Relatively Inaccessible, maps the topography of cancer. Diagnosed in 2005, Wangerin has had the time to examine the field well. The battlefield he’s crossing has been the field of prolonged cancer and pain and impending death.įor over a decade, this well-heeled writer and teacher/preacher has been walking this field, examining its every crevice. This weathered scop, Walter Wangerin Jr, known for Miz Lil, The Book of the Dun Cow and other marrow-of-the-bone works, has written again. The one who shaped, the one who told the story. Scop, the one in ancient Greece who crossed the battlefield and recorded its story. He is the type to excavate words long buried beneath century-old grit and neglect-important words, vital words like scop, the word he once handed me that was important enough to shape only my entire life purpose. ![]() ![]() The Topography of Cancerīuy Now: Amazon ] Kindle ] ![]()
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