Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Twenty years ago as an MFA student at Penn State, I submitted a six-line poem to be workshopped, about a character—also the speaker—undergoing an appendectomy. Unlike the rest of my bumbling, self-indulgent attempts at prosody, this lean machine of a poem was well-received by both my teacher and classmates. I felt elated until after class, in the Ladies Room, one of my fellow students lifted her T-shirt and invited me to compare my appendectomy scar to hers.
Repository Citation
Ciresi, Rita. "The Truth about Cancer: In the Fictional Waiting Room of My Novel, Bring Back My Body to Me." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 13, no. 1, 2013, pp. 1–14. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol13/iss1/8
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