Norita Dittberner-Jax Boeken

The author views her beloved husband's last years with ALS, her own diagnosis of cancer, and the unfamiliar landscape of solitude through a variety of prisms and lens, each memory and experience tinged with sorrow but also a courageous sense of affirmation.

This volume includes poems from every phase of the author's career. The themes vary though an underlying continuum of family and community connections sustains the flow. Individual poems work toward a balance, a beauty, in the midst of challenging experiences, including her beloved husband's battle with ALS and her own bout of cancer.