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Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023.
Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023.
Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023.
Katie Farris reads poems from Standing in the Forest of Being Alive (2023), which follows her experiences with breast cancer, chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation. Through these poems, Farris explores love, intimacy, and daily life during illness with humor and compassion. She opens with one new poem and a translation of Ukrainian poet Lesyk Panasiuk. This reading was originally given with Ilya Kaminsky.
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