Years ago, when my grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, I wrote a poem about this debilitating disorder and the difficult symptoms that accompany it. The poem led to another poem about Alzheimer's, and then to other poems about other disorders. I ended up with a stack of disorder poems and wasn't sure what I was going to do with them. I decided not to compile them into a manuscript but to send them out individually, when I came across a call for submissions by Editor David Fraser for an anthology of poems related to (of all things) disorders. I sent a number of the poems off, and two were selected: "Lewy Bodies" the Alzheimer's poem, and "Vertigo." Both poems appear in this lovely book recently titled, As One Cradles Pain, which is now in print and soon to be released.
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AuthorPetra Whitaker writes from Southern California, having recently lived in Chicago, and Ashland, Oregon. Archives
September 2020
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