
Now I Lay Me Down to Fight : A Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer
by Katy Bowser Hutson
Title:
Now I Lay Me Down to Fight : A Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer
Author:
Katy Bowser Hutson
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
96 pages
Publisher:
InterVarsity Press
ISBN-13:
9781514007990
EAN:
9781514007990
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
216
Dimensions (mm):
126 x 179 x 9
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
In stirring verse and essays, Katy Bowser Hutson chronicles her battle with breast cancer and the complications of faith amid such a fight. Accentuated by the art of Jodi Hays, Katy's words lead us through the realization of cancer, the experience of chemotherapy and a mastectomy, relentless rounds of radiation, the uncertainty of ongoing treatment, and what comes after survival. She writes in resistance to sickness, of wrestling toward beauty:Cancer is an overgrowth, a kudzu:Tangling and strangling legitimate life.Chemo is a killing, a burning out: Burning down to ashy carbon, indiscriminatelyBut cancer, did you know that I am a poet?Through it all, she shows what it means to struggle in a battered body and to pray to a God who is near to the broken. Join her in this consideration of mortality and witness her persisting trust in God's unseen ways.










