{"product_id":"howtlfg","title":"How to Grieve: a cancer journal, by Laura F. McGinnis","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt the age of 88, Mom was diagnosed with colon cancer. Together Mom and daughter Laura stumbled through doctors, rollercoasters, insurance, decisions, and the interminable waiting that the diagnosis created. The \"journal poems'' that comprise the center of the book were written while coping with the day-to-day realities and uncertainties of the first weeks we went through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlso included are poems dealing with the grief of losing Mom only nine months after the doctor told us \"there's a mass…\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1.9 million people will hear those feared words this year. This book hopes that some of them, especially family and caregivers, will feel they are not alone in their cancer journey and in the grief that follows their loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLaura McGinnis is a retired project manager from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Pittsburgh and at Carnegie Mellon University and Madwomen in the Attic at Carlow University. With Pitt Osher, she is the founder of the Writers' Special Interest Group and a founding member of the Poets' Forum. She has been published by \u003cem\u003eClarendon House\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSweety Cat Press\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eIndie Blu(e)\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Laura F. McGinnis","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":44115216892219,"sku":"HOWTLFG","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":44115216924987,"sku":"HOWTLFGe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/htgfront.png?v=1697489521","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/howtlfg","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}