No Obvious Distress

No Obvious Distress by Amanda Quaid


ISBN
9781399824569
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
144

'Striking, surprising, and technically excellent, the poems resonate way beyond their endings' Roger Robinson

'Deft, daring, devastating and delightful' Padraig O Tuama

'Astonishing. These poems glimmer with a white-hot beauty that is hard won, and that sings' Sarah Ruhl

Patient is a normal appearing woman in no obvious distress.

On an ordinary day, out with her three-year-old in the park, Amanda Quaid received a life-changing call - the back pain she had been living with for years was actually a rare and aggressive form of cancer. In an instant, life became a series of sterile rooms, medical charts and body-altering treatments which completely upend Amanda's marriage, work and family life as she knows it.

Poetry became a lifeline for Amanda, a form to organize the chaos and pain of day-to-day life into order and beauty. In inventive and arresting poems that explore desire, marriage, motherhood and mortality, No Obvious Distress is a powerful memoir-in-verse about Amanda's unique experience. But it is also a tender, witty and universal collection that asks how we can continue to live and love in times of uncertainty.
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