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The bright hour : a memoir of living and dying / Nina Riggs. by Riggs, Nina. Simon & Schuster, 2017. Call #: 362.19699449 R569t Subjects Riggs, Nina.   Riggs, Nina -- Philosophy.   Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.   Terminally ill -- United States -- Biography.   Death.   Death -- Psychological aspects.   Life.   Mothers -- United States -- Biography.   Women poets, American -- Biography.   Women college teachers -- United States -- Biography. ISBN:  9781501169359 (hc.) Edition:  First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Description:  310 pages ; 22 cm. Summary:  "An exquisite memoir about how to live and love every day with 'death in the room,' from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air. 'We are breathless, but we love the days. They are promises. They are the only way to walk from one night to the other.' Nina Riggs was just thirty-seven years old when initially diagnosed with breast cancer - one small spot. Within a year, she received the devastating news that her cancer was terminal. How does one live each day, 'unattached to outcome'? How does one approach the moments, big and small, with both love and honesty? Exploring motherhood, marriage, friendship, and memory, even as she wrestles with the legacy of her great-great-great grandfather, she asks, what makes a meaningful life when one has limited time? The Bright Hour is about how to love all the days, even the bad ones, and it's about the way literature, especially Emerson, and Nina's other muse, Montaigne, can be a balm and a form of prayer. It's a book about looking death squarely in the face and saying 'this is what will be.' Especially poignant in these uncertain times, The Bright Hour urges us to live well and not lose sight of what makes us human: love, art, music, words." Nina Riggs taught poetry in the creative writing program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was only 39 when she died in February 2017, a mere two years after being diagnosed with breast cancer."--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  2   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 362.19699449 R569t Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 362.19699449 R569t Adult Nonfiction Browsing Collection Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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