take on the challenge of such an august and demanding form? As [Gwyneth] Lewis makes clear, in a work that constantly reflects on its own processes and proceeding, writing a (female) epic was for her not a result of choice but of sheer necessity, its creation a matter of life and death. Behind her poem lies the author's recent experience of her husband Leyton's successful fight against cancer, shadowed in turn by her father's earlier unsuccessful battle with the same disease.from The Guardian: A Hospital Odyssey by Gwyneth Lewis
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