| #4174975 in Books | 2006-08-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.22 x6.00l,.32 | File type: PDF | 88 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Brilliant, beautiful and tragic|By cwgmd|The poet, an expert in literature and medicine, combines her knowledge of both as she chronicles her descent into dementia, fully understanding the disease and utilizing her literary skills to describe it.
Many of the poems are so beautifully lyrical that it is difficult to believe that the poet is intellectually impaired as s|About the Author|Laurel Brodsley was a university lecturerin English literature, with many academicpublications in both literature and medicine. Shetook up writing poetry after being stricken withAlzheimer?s disease. She has two children andlives with her husban
Laurel Brodsley Ph.D., M.P.H., R.N., was a lecturer in Englishliterature at a major university. One day at a familiar intersection, shebriefly lost her sense of direction. As she immediately suspected, thiswas the first symptom of early-onset Alzheimer's Disease, which shetried to delay by every strategy she could find.After having to give up work, she started to write poetry about herexperience. Over the following years these poems, often bleak butoften celebrating life...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Alzheimer Poems | Laurel Brodsley. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
