THE UNDYING

A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast can cer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastr ophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness.A twenty-first -century Illness as Metaphor, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival, The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digita...[Read more]