Given Time
a mother-daughter cancer memoir
Published on 20. June 2025
Book
Hardback
46 pages
979-8-89990-041-9 (ISBN)
Description
Given Time is a memoir in poetry about the breast cancer of Christine Beck's mother and her own recent diagnosis. These poems juxtapose loss and hope, then and now, and two women-mother and daughter-as they twine their lives together, much like the trunks of the olive trees painted by Van Gogh. This collection resounds with the awareness that we all offer gifts to those we love. Some we recognize at the time if we're lucky. Some we don't see until we are far apart. Christine Beck and her mother live in these pages as the vibrant spirits they were and continue to be. Like yarn carried on the underside of an intricate knitted pattern, they are "linked by strands of pink."
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
202 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-89990-041-9 (9798899900419)
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Christine Beck holds an MFA in poetry from Southern Connecticut State University and is the author of three books of poetry - Blinding Light (Grayson Books 2013), I'm Dating Myself, (Dancing Girl Press 2015) and Stirred, Not Shaken (Five Oaks Press 2016). She is a former Poet Laureate of the Town of West Hartford, CT. and former President of The Connecticut Poetry Society, where she created a poetry series called Poets on Poetry. She has also written Beneath the Steps: A Writing Guide for 12-Step Recovery and leads workshops for writers in recovery. She publishes a weekly essay about literature and life at christinebeck.substack.com. Her website is www.ChristineBeck.net.