Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393322613)

In July 1998, when Maxine Kumin's horse bolted at a carriage-driving clinic, she was not expected to live. Yet, less than a year later, her progress pronounced a miracle by her doctors, she was at work on this journal of her astonishing recovery. She tells of her time "inside the halo," the near-medieval device that kept her head immobile during weeks of intensive care and rehabilitation, of the lasting "rehab" friendships, and of the loving family who always believed she would heal. "[S]he resonates wisdom while announcing a triumph of body and soul."--Anne Roiphe, New York Times Book Review "Maxine Kumin brings the sensitivity and imagination of a poet to her extraordinary ordeal."--Richard Selzer, author of Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery "From a singular experience she has created a lesson that is universal, which, it seems to me, is the essence of being a poet."--Abraham Verghese, author of The Tennis Partner

Author: Maxine Kumin
ISBN-10: 0393322610
ISBN-13: 9780393322613
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2000
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.60d