{"product_id":"survivors-notebook-poems-paperback","title":"Survivor's Notebook: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDan O'Brien\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of prose poems that chronicles the family life of two cancer survivors.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Dan O'Brien's powerful companion to \u003ci\u003eOur Cancers\u003c\/i\u003e catalogs the recovery of a cancer survivor, whose wife has recently survived her own cancer, as he returns to his daily life while raising a young daughter. This prose-poem sequence is a true survivor's notebook, using photos and the tools of memoir to evoke how disaster can constellate our past, present, and future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In his poems, plays, and nonfiction, Dan O'Brien has explored, as he says in a 2023 interview, \"how trauma shatters identity, and in its aftermath we reconfigure and rewrite, as it were, the story of who we were and are and maybe will be.\" In highly personal poems reminiscent of dramatic monologues, as well as shorter lyric fragments, the protagonist reconsiders the people and places he knew before his illness, including his estranged family and others with cancer. While looking back he moves forward again, resuming his career as a writer and teacher, revisiting Ireland, and making a kind of pilgrimage to the Holy Land. There is a confiding and at times comical tone in these poems as O'Brien awakens to the delights, absurdities, and wonders of existence, and as he and his wife work through the aftershocks of their trauma toward a deeper love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With text and image, \u003ci\u003eSurvivor's Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e shows how we go on, with resilience, gratitude, and joy, when \"the emergency's elsewhere\" now.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan O'Brien\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and playwright. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eOur Cancers\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Acre Books. His previous poetry collections include \u003ci\u003eWar Reporter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Life\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eScarsdale\u003c\/i\u003e. O'Brien is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama and two PEN America Awards for playwriting. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 116\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 8.9 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765019181344,"sku":"9781946724632","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bd870044691fccd8295b63578edf6c63.webp?v=1780260641","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/survivors-notebook-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}