What is it like to live with a chronic illness or disability? How does it feel from the inside? My Body of Knowledge is a collection of personal essays, poetry, and fiction that accesses the wealth of insight and knowledge that people with disabilities have - simply from living in their bodies. My Body of Knowledge includes 34 pieces of writing from both new and established authors, including Molly Ivins, Floyd Skloot, and Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. Honest, raw, humorous, and poignant, the writing captures experiences of those with cancer, depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, Crohn's disease, paralysis, repetitive strain injury, Lyme disease, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, AIDS, and other physical conditions.
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An anthology to rekindle your mind, body, and spirit,
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This review is from: My Body of Knowledge: Stories of Illness, Disability, Healing, and Life (Paperback)
If you or your loved ones are coping with illness or disability, this book is a must-read! This book leads the reader through this process - from affliction, to isolation, to integration, and all other steps in between - all through the voices of those who have walked this path before. You cannot read this book and be unmoved, either through a greater recognition of yourself in these stories or through a greater understanding of those who live with illness or disability. A book you will keep forever and reach for again and again when your spirit needs rekindling.
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Informative and Eloquent Anthology,
By MoREADER (Oakland, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My Body of Knowledge: Stories of Illness, Disability, Healing, and Life (Paperback)
The personal essays and poetry in My Body of Knowledge are not only educational in terms of learning about how people live with disability and chronic illness, but also well written and moving. From well known authors such as Rachel Naomi Remen and Molly Ivins, to "every day people" like the editor Karen Myers, the personal experiences shared in the book are poignant, and full of truth and love. As a cancer survivor making my way through the world, I was heartened by reading the authors' writings. So many of their struggles resonated with my own--from entering an unknown, uncertain world to the emotions I've felt--grief, anger, hope and even humor. This book is a "must read" for anyone living with the challenges of a disability or chronic illness, or anyone loving a person with a chronic illness or disability.
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excellent book!,
By Will Walker (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My Body of Knowledge: Stories of Illness, Disability, Healing, and Life (Paperback)
This book is for anybody who has a body, especially those of us who may have discovered that our body can't do what it once could. I especially appreciate the different points of view and subject matter, the sense that this project is a circle of people with varied life experience who are contributing to a picture of what it means to be human and challenged that is larger and more inclusive than the sum of its parts. The selection of form and tone gives a suggestion of the flexibility and resourcefulness that are called out of each of us in dealing with our individual challenges. Kudos.
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