Tuesday, June 14, 2011

News at Eleven: [James Navé] had prostate cancer--

the big mento mori ("remember your mortality") moment.

He confronted the disease the best way he knew how --with words. He vowed to write a poem a day for the hundred days following his surgery. He wrote this one on April 1:

Slumber After Surgery

from NPR: Poet Battles Cancer With A Hundred Poems

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