The Readiness

A chronological series of poems depicting the life of a cancer patient in the first year of his male breast cancer treatment. Moving often witty both reverent and irreverent the book is a praise song written with courage and good humor. Eamon Grennan has called it a wonder. He goes on to say With undaunted courage insight and an always ready irrepressibly generous humor even in the face of mortal illness these poems are brief brilliant testaments to the poets stubborn will to praise to celebrate the radiant ongoingness of the natural and human worlds that he has taken it seems into his care.