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Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery
by
Maxine Kumin
In July 1998, when Maxine Kumin's horse bolted at a carriage-driving clinic, she was not expected to live. Yet, less than a year later, her progress pronounced a miracle by her doctors, she was at work on this journal of her astonishing recovery. She tells of her time "inside the halo," the near-medieval device that kept her head immobile during weeks of intensiv...more
Paperback, 206 pages
Published
November 28th 2001
by W. W. Norton & Company
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This book was well written and interesting to me as someone who works with people who have had fractures of the spine. I am thinking of making a list of books I'd like my students to read, and I'd put this on that list because it tells you so much about the patient's experience. I was familiar with some of her poetry, and the poems (few) in this book were good.
The story of recovery from a near fatal accident written by an amazing poet has got to be good.
The poet Maxine Kumin recovers from a devastating accident that almost killed her--powerful.
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Maxine Kumin's 17th poetry collection, forthcoming in the spring of 2010, is Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010. Her awards include the Pulitzer and Ruth Lilly Poetry Prizes, the Poets’ Prize, and the Harvard Arts and Robert Frost Medals. A former US poet laureate, she and her husband live on a farm in New Hampshire.
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