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November's medical humanities recommendation for your enjoyment is poetry by Andrea Hollander Budy.:
How to live with—and, more importantly, love—someone gradually being diminished by dementia is the focus of two poems by Andrea Hollander Budy, “In the Sixth Year of My Father’s Illness” and “Living Room.” Though her style seems simple and direct, Hollander Budy explores the emotional complexity of dementia with honesty, wisdom, and astounding beauty. Both poems are from her third book, Woman in the Painting; they also are included in an excellent anthology published in 2005-- Lasting: Poems on Aging--that looks at aging and mortality from myriad perspectives. Beginning in January, Hollander Budy will serve as Poet-in-Residence at Westminster College of Salt Lake City. For 17 years, the award-winning poet has been the Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College in Arkansas.
