Just Breathe Normally opens with a traumatic accident.
She teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University..
About author(s): Peggy Shumaker is professor emerita of English at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the author of several books of poetry, including Blaze and Underground Rivers .
She teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.
Peggy Shumaker is professor emerita of English at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the author of several books of poetry, including Blaze and Underground Rivers .
We see in practice the power of words to restore what medical science cannot: the fragile human psyche and its immense capacity for forgiveness.
Her memoir enacts our human desire to understand the fragmented self.
Shumaker crafts language unlike anyone else, language at once poetic and profound.
This book transforms injury, transforms loss.
We all live with injury and loss.
Her book, a moving memoir of childhood and family, testifies to the power of collective empathy in the transformations that make and remake us throughout our lives.
Through a long convalescence, she reevaluates her family\'s past, treating us to a meditation on the meaning of justice and the role of love in the grueling process of healing.
In the wake of her near-fatal cycling collision, Peggy Shumaker searches for meaning within extremity.
In lyric prose, the stories spiral back through generations to touch on questions of mortality and family, immigration and migration, legacies intended or inflicted.
Shattered perceptions and shards of narrative recount the events, from wreck through recovery and beyond.
Just Breathe Normally opens with a traumatic accident
