To Alice and Her Cancer

"I see you on the couch, blood draining, tumor rising, while across town in the laboratory petri dishes your diagnosis gels." Thus begins Emerson Gilmore's chronicle of a life being taken by the big C. These touching poems range from sad to quizzical to manic. The disembodied spirit of Inez, his best friend's mother, informs from the grave. Gilmore invites us to share his daily struggle as he watches and listens to his sister decline and rise and decline again until she ultimately triumphs in a death marked by grace and promise. These poems come from the heart and reach into the heart. They will leave you with a surprising peace.