The Undying: A meditation on modern illness - Anne Boyer

"Extraordinary and furious... The Undying is partly a memoir of Anne Boyer's illness, diagnosed when she was 41 years old. Boyer doesn't just pull the pink ribbon loose, unfastening its dainty loop; she feeds it through a shredder and lights it on fire, incinerating its remains."

Anne Boyer is a U.S. poet and essayist. In 2018 she was the inaugural winner of the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry and the recipient of a Whiting Award in non-fiction/poetry. Her books include A Handbook of Disappointed Fate (2018) as well as several volumes of poetry, including The Romance of Happy Workers (2008) and the CLMP Firecracker Award-winning Garments Against Women (2016). Normally based in Kansas City, Missouri, she is the Judith E. Wilson Fellow at Cambridge for 2018-2019.