Chelsea Ciccone Tribune News Service
Iâm almost certain youâve heard platitudes such as âYou only live onceâ or âYou could get hit by a bus tomorrow.â And though these remarks may evoke an exaggerated eye roll because of their common appropriation in justifying spontaneous purchases and questionable haircuts, they also remind us to enjoy living. Because despite its trials and minutiae, life is precious, and we have to take advantage of what little time weâre given.
Nothing ignites our appreciation for life quite like looking death in the eye. For these seven writers, it was an earth-shattering cancer diagnosis that forced them each to contemplate life with the sobering realization that their time had been cut severely short. Their memoirs â some survival tales, some not â transform the bleakest of circumstances into honest, heartfelt meditations on life itself.
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城市之光 书店创始人逝世，他一生都在对抗强权_费林盖蒂
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Hoops (2006), and
Leaving Saturn (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. His edited volumes include
Best American Poetry 2019,
Renga for Obama, and
Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. A recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He has published poems and essays in