Dara WierPeter GizziBoyer, Sarah W2024-04-262012-09-292012-05510.7275/2717091https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/47725The following is a book of poetry, born of the chaos in leaving home and discovering loneliness within the confines of my own body. Sustaining a mixed vernacular, that of the rural Midwest, the Bible, medicine, and the strange, this book seeks a sympathy with illness and with those who suffer its symptoms. I drew much upon my childhood in particular the years spent going on rounds with my father at the local hospital.illnessfatherkidmountainzebrageneralCreative WritingPoetrycampus