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Words written from the corridors of the soul revealing a journey of joy, devotion, compassion and sorrow that allows us all to grieve, heal and rejoice in the truth that true love is possible.-Sandy Travis Bildahl I've been advocating for patients with triple negative breast cancer for nearly 16 years, ever since my first diagnosis. I mainly talk to women who are diagnosed, but sometimes I hear from their loving husbands. I have never, however, heard a husband put words to this journey the way Bill Lantry has done. His poetry is pure, precise, true, and heartbreaking. We see Kate's diagnosis from his eyes, and we see his love. I think every woman who has gone through TNBC-and every man who has loved her-needs to read Bill's words. He touches our souls.-Patricia Prijatel In heartbroken honesty and flawless blank verse, these poems are a loving husband's account of the long trauma of his wife's cancer treatment. They might break your heart, too, but beautifully.-Maryann Corbett Bill Lantry's poems are filled with heartbreak and hope. A tribute to his wife's beauty and spirit, they chronicle the ordinary and the transcendent in exquisite detail. Whether Bill is in their garden or in a cancer center waiting room, he lets the reader into his heart. Every single word of these poems is written with love. It is a privilege to read this series of daily poems as each one is posted, to follow along with Bill and Kate as they negotiate such a difficult year.-Patricia Valdata Take this journey with Kate and those who love her and understand the transcendent beauty and strength and power of love...love against all odds.-Claudia Piepenburg Bill Lantry's collection of six stanza three-line blank verse in iambic pentameter chronicles, with wife Kate's encouragement, the progression of her cancer and its treatment. This is a jewel of a collection of poems, one that rivals even the classic love poems. Dante and Keats, my two favorites. Lantry celebrates Kate who is his ideal but also very real beloved and his partner for more than a quarter of a century. This reality imparts an emotional depth to his work that even those great poets could not attain. With poems that are both empathetic and enlightening, Lantry reveals the couple's daily pain and hope, awkward moments, and glorious times in the garden, with their son, and stolen times of solitude when he as caregiver tries to recharge. These poems give readers a record, not of simply how to survive in a time of pain and suffering but also show us a way to overcome, to break out of disease's stranglehold through the power of love. He chronicles this in words and pictures, sometimes simply recording the grace and love of their daily lives including not only the treatments, the pain but also the daily acts of hope-walking in a garden, simply holding hands, watching the loved one as she sleeps. This is a book to keep by one's side, to read daily to learn the meaning of love. -Joan Leotta

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