The Anti-Inflammation Zone: Reversing the Silent Epidemic That's Destroying Our Health (Zone (Regan))
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  • There are some good ideas in this book, but Sears' sloppy argumentation is a burden on the reader
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  • So far it's been very helpful
  • It's not as complicated as Sears wants you to believe
The Anti-Inflammation Zone: Reversing the Silent Epidemic That's Destroying Our Health (Zone (Regan))
Barry Sears
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Combat silent inflammation -- the most serious health threat you never heard of

Heart disease is the #1 killer of Americans.
Cancer is the #1 fear of Americans.
Dementia is the #1 concern of Americans.

What do these devastating illnesses have in common? All three have been linked to silent inflammation, a condition that occurs when the body's natural immune response goes awry. Silent inflammation attacks the heart, arteries, and even the brain -- and you will not even know it. Obesity is the primary cause of silent inflammation and excess body fat is causing today's epidemic rise in countless health threats.

Now Dr. Barry Sears shows you how to combat silent inflammation in this comprehensive guide. His research shows that following the Zone dietary plan, including supplements of ultrarefined fish oil concentrates, is the best way to ensure the future of your health. You can reduce your risk of each disease and condition, or reverse silent inflammation if you have it already -- in only thirty days. The Anti-Inflammation Zone includes a week of Zone meals, exercises that you can do at home, and tools and tests for determining your level of silent inflammation. Follow this plan and enjoy these benefits:

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The ZoneTM, comes a groundbreaking look at how inflammation is the silent source of almost all disease - and how to stop it using the Zone dietary plan and fish oil supplements. The Anti-Inflammation Diet provides convincing evidence that shows the deleterious effects of long-term inflammation-and specific plans to combat it. Whatever your health concern, you'll learn that we are only now beginning to understand the mechanisms that make us sick. And most important, you'll have a clear blueprint toward health that starts with the Zone.

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3 out of 5 stars There are some good ideas in this book, but Sears' sloppy argumentation is a burden on the reader.......2007-08-29

My chiropractor gave me this book to read after I complained that working out wasn't ceasing my back spasms. He wanted me to start a core workout program rather than continue with a bodybuilding workout program (after a month, the former has greatly reduced my back pain and increased strength in my back and legs), and he also thought I wasn't eating right. I began the core program immediately and started reading Dr. Sears' book, initially in earnest.

I don't think Dr. Sears is wrong about the significance of all kinds of inflammation as well as the health benefits of taking purified, high-dose fish oil. Like a good theorist, he compiles the work of many, many previous researchers and concludes an untested theory that truly deserves a massive study to confirm Sears' contentions. All of that is fine.

But I now understand why my doctor gave me the book while mentioning some reservations about its content. First and foremost, this is probably the most repetitive book I have ever read. In fact, I did not read every word, or even every chapter. I felt insulted when I would read the same ideas in every chapter, often the same sentences and phrasing. The exercise section is pathetic and possibly dangerous if you have a bad back. Don't bother reading it. The week's worth of meals is also weak, yet the exercise and meal sections together total 100 pages. Notes and appendices comprise another 100 pages. Discounting those sections, Sears leaves only 200 pages to explain what his book is about. And he's not going to make it pleasant. What's funny about repetition in a book is that it actually confuses the reader, because each time a concept is repeated, something new is added to it so that it becomes foreign again. Sears truly needs an editor.

That being said, the essence of his ideas is interesting, but I imagine there are not more than 100 pages of text worth reading here. In a nutshell, Sears believes you should take high-dose fish oil (make sure it's pure, like Eskimo-3, or a similarly reputable brand); avoid grains, rice, and pasta; eat small portions of protein at most meals; eat fruits and veggies; avoid sugar and juices; and avoid egg yolks, butter, vegetable oil, and a few other "bad" oils. That's it. Now if you really want to know why you should eat this way for the rest of your life, you'll have to read his book. Although it takes him a few hundred pages to get it out, the reasons for this diet and for taking fish oil are in there.

5 out of 5 stars helpful.......2007-05-12

I've been on the Zone diet for over ten and a half years and now I want to help other people with the Zone diet. Dr. Sears' book was helpful along with his other books. I decided to double the amount of fish oil I take after reading this book. The Zone diet in general has been a great diet for me. My health and energy have improved greatly over the past ten years. I have lost over thirty pounds. The exercise portion was new. I don't watch TV much so exercising during my favorite TV program isn't quite my style, but it's an interesting idea and may work for a lot of people.

5 out of 5 stars A Must Read.......2007-04-01

This book changed my eating habits for ever and I thought I already had good eating habits! For the first time in my life, I no longer have feelings of hypoglicemia and I lost, slowly but surely, 11lbs in 3 months, without feeling hungry. This is more a way of eating long-term than a diet. I started running at about the same time I bought this book, I am currently training for a half marathon and I find this way of eating very compatible with an active lifestyle. Since I do not eat meat, I also bought the Soy Zone.

4 out of 5 stars So far it's been very helpful.......2006-11-03

I listened to the audiobook and the next day I started with the zone diet and the extra-refined fish oil, after 2 weeks I definitely feel better. I would really recommend this to others.

2 out of 5 stars It's not as complicated as Sears wants you to believe.......2006-08-14

Sears wants you to think he has come up with a complicated system which he calls The Zone.

In reality, all you need is to eat naturally, like our ancestors did thousands of years ago. Eat greens, vegetables, berries, fruit, mushrooms, nuts. Eat lean meat (our ancestors hunted for healthy, lean animals). Eat egg whites, but avoid yolks. Most of the modern contaminants stick to fat molecules, and yolks are mostly fat. Plus it's the wrong type of fat, as chickens are not fed properly. Eat wild fish (but not too often; don't forget about pollutants).

That's it. Forget grains (and everything made from them). Forget potatoes and hard beans, soda and juices. Forget vegetable oils. All that junk is completely unnatural for humans to eat; our ancestors couldn't imagine that was edible. And that's why we have diseases that they didn't have.

Forget milk. Milk is only good for babies under 3 years old. Studies show that milk (and even yogurt) causes hyperinsulinemia (insulin "spikes" that lead to diabetes etc.) in adults.

Yes, his advice to take fish oil is great. Farm-raised animals are fed with junk food; consequently, they lack certain fatty acids that are vital for our health. Fish oil is a convenient way of restoring the balance. But Sears' fish oil is not the purest and cheapest on the market.

I'm a physiologist, and I've helped a number of people to change their eating habits. Those people have gotten rid of many problems, like obesity, allergies, asthma, arthritis, and excessive fatigue. And they don't complain that the food is not delicious enough. They learned to use their imagination a little bit and combine various healthy foods to create their nice and simple "recipes", and realized they enjoy their food even more than before.
Silent Treatment
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  • The thrill faded
  • Good solid potboiler
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  • Another great meducal thriller!
  • Good book but female characters are Barbie dolls
Silent Treatment
Michael Palmer
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In his five bestselling novels, from The Sisterhood to Natural Causes, physician Michael Palmer has drawn on years of firsthand emergency-room experience to create the drama of a frighteningly authentic world--a world where the line between medicine and murder is scalpel-thin.  Now, in his most harrowing suspense novel yet, Palmer reveals how the power to heal can become a license to kill....

With his wife, Evie, scheduled for surgery the next day, Dr.  Harry Corbett goes to the hospital for what he hopes will be a quiet evening of reconciliation.  In recent weeks Evie, never quick to share her feelings, has been more closed and distant than ever.

But when Harry reaches Evie's room, it is too late for reconciliation.  Shockingly, without warning, Evie is dead.  The police suspect homicide.  And their only suspect is Dr.  Harry Corbett.

Harry is not prepared for the stunning revelations that follow: His bright, beautiful, highly ambitious wife was leading a double life; she may have had
dangerous secrets.  But what secret could have been explosive enough to die for?

Then the killer strikes again, boldly, tauntingly murdering one of Harry's favorite patients in such a way that only Harry knows the death was not natural.  This time Harry is certain: The killer, medically sophisticated, coolly arrogant, moving undetected through a busy urban hospital, could only be a doctor.  And he wonders--how many more will die?

Desperately Harry probes deeper, following the only clue Evie left.  What he finds is a sinister pattern that threatens patients in every hospital in the city.  Harry is engaged in a life-and-death battle of wits with a chillingly efficient monster.  And until the doctor is unmasked, no patient is safe from his lethal silent treatment.

Michael Palmer has done it again, delivering a no-holds-barred novel of medical intrigue-- a gripping thriller that features the most terrifying physician
since Hannibal Lecter.  Silent Treatment will keep your pulse racing from beginning to end

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars The thrill faded.......2004-07-12

"Silent Treatment" is a really good read. The first 80% of it was top notch, quite fascinating. Then it became rather tortuous, tedious, and disjointed. Thus, the ending was rather empty, and a disappointment.

3 out of 5 stars Good solid potboiler.......2004-04-17

Michael Palmer's thriller 'Silent Treatment' didn't keep me up at night turning pages. The female characters were unconvincing as was the love interest between an alcoholic artist and the protagonist, Dr Harry Corbett. The name of the protagonist is unfortunately chosen for UK readers over the age, say, of 53. This is because for very many years there was on TV in England a popular children's comedian called Harry Corbett with his two glove puppets, Sooty and Sweep.
But, I digress.

The book was a pleasant read. I found myself wanting to keep track of it because there are always several books floating around the house, which is a good sign. It was competently written in boring old third person past tense. The author included enough frissons in the form of dangerous situations to keep the plot, which was straightforward enough, moving along at a decent pace.

The book is 447 pages long, a good size; anywhere between 120K and 140K words, a typical airport-bookstall book.
In real life I find the case of the UK doctor who murdered well over a hundred patients in real life far more horrifying than medical thrillers.

In this particular plot, an evil 'inner circle' of medical practitioners conspire to murder several patients a week. The patients are of course, this being set in America, selected on the basis of the most costly to treat, go first.

4 out of 5 stars Medical thriller.......2003-02-04

Like Robin Cook, Michael Palmer writes medical thrillers. For those who doesn't know what this is, Palmer does with doctors what Grisham does with lawyers. The problem is, in my opinion, hospitals and doctors lack the plot-oportunities that we can easily find in the legal profession. So, in the end, everything seems very improbable, and the reader gets a feeling something is missing.

"Silent treatment" is about Dr. Korbet, a general practicioner (if I understood right, "gp"s are low in the "scale of doctors") whose wife is suddenly murdered during pre-op procedures. Korbet's life begins to go down the drain when he's accused of the murder and has no way to prove his innocence. On the other hand, a bunch of hot-shots of the medical-insurance industry are making reunions to, in a most unorthodox way, receive more money from their contributors. Obviously, the two plots are linked in some way or another.

This is not "the ultimate thriller", but is a light enterteinment, and an easy reading. There are many flaws, the most obvious being the very shall development of characters. The "bad guy" had a very good premise, but went underdeveloped as well, unfortunately.

If you are a Michael Palmer fan, read this one. If you're not, give it a try, if you have some time to spare.

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4 out of 5 stars Another great meducal thriller!.......2002-11-23

This was a great book.. full of suspense right from the start. The only disappointment was the ending. I feel as if I was cheated. The ending leaves the reader hanging. Maybe you need to draw your own conclusions. This shouldn't keep anyone from not reading this book.
Once again, Michael Palmer leads the reader on a roller coaster ride of emotions. For the first time, it wasn't until near the end that I finally caught on. This is one of his better book.s

4 out of 5 stars Good book but female characters are Barbie dolls.......2002-06-11

I enjoyed this book as well as Michael Palmer's other books. He does a great job of effectively creating an intricate plot and introducing new characters throughout. What I am tired of, with this and Palmer's other books, are how most (not all, but disproportionately most) of the female characters are described as "tall, slender, attractive, beautiful, etc." Geez, give me a break! I suppose this is a male fantasy, but it ain't real life. I would like to see Palmer include female main characters who are more "normal" looking.
The Silent Thief: Osteoporosis, Exercises and Strategies Prevention and Treatment (Your Personal Health)
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    The Silent Thief: Osteoporosis, Exercises and Strategies Prevention and Treatment (Your Personal Health)
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    Are you at risk? Osteoporosis is often called "the silent thief" because bone loss occurs without symptoms. Today, 15 million Americans suffer from osteoporosis and, with the increasing proportion of older people in the population, this disease is on the increase. Although osteoporosis commonly affects people over the age of 50, it can strike at any age.

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    Silent Treatment: New Poems
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      Silent Treatment: New Poems
      Richard Howard
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      "Richard Howard is an indispensable, unique poet, whose work instructs by delighting, and delights by instructing . . . he is Browning's authentic heir at rendering the inner voices of the cultural past and present."-Harold Bloom

      In a recent conversation with Priscilla Becker, published by the Poetry Society of America, Richard Howard commented on his many personae:

      "I don't like direct self-expression. All the work that I do is some kind of invocation or transaction with others, whether it's criticism, translation, or poetry. There are poems that are direct self-expression, but certainly, with some sense of preference, there is an enterprise which involves speaking through a mask, a persona. That's what the word means: sounding through-sonans per-and I like the idea of the mask or the masks, because I'm more interested in the dialogue of others than in merely the dialogue with another-the dialogue of others who are out there, who are not me."

      Hannah Arendt, George Eliot, Cosima Wagner, and a boy in a photograph by Arkansas photographer Mike Disfarmer are among the speakers in The Silent Treatment.

      Richard Howard is a poet, scholar, teacher, translator, and critic. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including most recently Paper Trail: Selected Prose 1965–2003, shortlisted for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963–2003. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Robert Frost Medal.

      Silent Treatment: Poems (National Poetry Series)
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      • Write on!
      • Excerpts from a longer review of Lewis's book
      • Excerpts from a longer review of Lewis's book
      • Lisa Lewis's SILENT TREATMENT is a deeply feminist project.
      Silent Treatment: Poems (National Poetry Series)
      Lisa Lewis
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      In poems at once dauntless and thoughtful, Lisa Lewis reveals the unspoken thoughts, hidden fears, and secret desires of a contemporary woman. She reminisces about the lost joys of childhood ("I was one of those girls who grew up / Loving horses, but now I can't afford to ride. . . ."), writes movingly of her mother's last days in a nursing home, and offers a witty recap of a visit to old college friends ("They're good people, I just can't stand to be near them. . . ."). Stanley Plumly writes, "Rilke once said that poetry is one silence speaking to another silence. The poems in Silent Treatment seem anything but that--yet their large meditating presences live within a great still space, within a passionate need to speak and a palpable fear of not being heard. The longing in Lisa Lewis's poems is real not only in the full narrative argument of her lines but in the mindful ambivalence she feels about her body--its sexuality, mortality, earth-transcendence. It is as if she were trying to write her way into silence as well as finding her way from silence, and this is that poetry."

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Write on!.......2004-02-22

      A victim of the "silent treatment" myself, I thank Lisa Lewis for opening her mouth.
      These strong, utterly believable poems will amaze you with their courage.

      5 out of 5 stars Excerpts from a longer review of Lewis's book.......1998-09-24

      Lisa Lewis's second book of poems,_Silent Treatment_, extends the belief-nonbelief conundrum at the heart of her previous collection. It also continues her earlier work of self-conscious and courageous reckoning with experience, body, and language.

      I've always been engaged by the mixing, in Lewis's poems, of near oracular grace with sometimes ungainly everyday speech; by her peculiar balancing of irony, tenderness, and self-deprecation with fierce. . .well, with fierce *crabbiness*. The speaker in these poems, though thoroughly self-scrutinizing, is also a resister, a veritable warrior. And one of the things she seems intent on battling is silence. By silence I mean an ontological space, free and clear of language and the mind; the infamous "outside" or "center" which we still argue with and about. And I mean also the social silence which protects an abuser, any silence that conceals hypocrisy or harm, and the one so often imposed on those with little power over what gets heard. I've always been struck by how Lewis can just *say* certain things in her work, however tabooed they may be. Nearly every poem, in fact, happily violates some unacknowledged, consensus-enforced gag order. Every piece shakes us awake, sometimes gently, sometimes not.

      She can say, for instance, that ". . .my students/Are stupid." In one sense, this is an astoundingly rude and crude acknowledgment of what every college teacher in America has surely (in at least one warranted or unwarranted, sacrilegious and punishable-by-death-or-loss-of-tenure moment of weariness and irritation), spoken or thought. "My students," she says, "[a]re stupid." But almost in the same instant in which the statement slams into the reader, it buzzes softly open with all its ironic over- and under-tones. It's an implicit and amusingly deadpan comment, for one thing, on our cherished but mostly unexamined view of teachers as angelic social martyrs. It's also an overtly provocative pronouncement that cannot help but bait someone -no doubt a student or two, no doubt a critic or two to battle, which, for Lewis, seems always preferrable to a life of submission; in this case, the grind of tenure-track teaching. And it's also overt finger-pointing, which, as it typically does in her work, rapidly results in the speaker's awareness of her *own* culpability: "I do what I can butnothing matters..."; "I wanted them to save the world"; "What they don't know is how pissed off I am/I can't just *be* them again,. . ." and so on. Admitting, after all, that one's students are stupid is inherently self-condemning, since it obviously suggests weakness on the part of the teacher. She can identify her strengths as well (she herself was a better student; she "only needed a little help, getting started") but she seems to feel that such strengths are mostly past, unrecoverable ("I can't just *be* them again"), and she is now helpless before the immense power of time, and the insidious glances of students who suspect their teacher is "full of s. . t." This is not a comfortable way to be. Lewis doesn't let anyone off the hook, least of all herself.

      So this is a poet intent on looking the world and herself dead-on. Her poems insist on the hard, terrible, sometimes ridiculous reality of an essentially material universe. . . They seek out and try to know or "nail" the awkward social moment, the sexual embarrassment, the difficult memory in all its corporeality -only to find those things, ultimately, unknowable and unsayable.

      A rape, for example, is not something which should ever be viewed as harmless or forgivable, especially, one would think, by a committed feminist (Lewis heads the Oklahoma chapter of NOW). In "Bogart," however, a description/nailing of such an event only leads to the revelation of its ambiguity and even, disturbingly, its possible harmlessness. (There are even moments of humor in the poem.) The rape is not, in the end, deemed funny or harmless, but the speaker does not arrive at such a conclusion easily. The process of writing poems, for her, is an affirmation of and engagement with *manners* (in Flannery O'Connor's sense of the word), even as she struggles with the *mystery* that very process unleashes. Language is a glass boat that keeps us above water, safe, bounded, and fixed while at the same time making present to us a vast, deadly, profoundly unfixed thing mere inches away making present, perhaps, the boat itself as that vast, deadly, profoundly unfixed thing. Or perhaps language in its practical and everyday functions creates the illusion of safety so that we may effectively be and act in the world--while language in its literary functions may reveal that illusion for what it is, reveal even the precariousness of language itself. (Literature as the antidote to language!)

      For this poet, however, a better metaphor than the glass boat is, of course, the horse. Where would any good warrior be, after all, without one?. . .Poems, like horses, were "invented to bring us back to earth." But if one is brought back close enough to, or confronts deeply enough, that earth (body/memory/love; burdensome everyday life), what seems to be encountered are intolerable contradictions, a profusion of opposites: indulgence in self/erasure of self; talk/silence; isolation/communion; oblivion/godhead, and so on. All things simultaneously resisted and sought-for by this doomed and persistent poet, so intent on *speaking* what the world actually is. . .Language freed of intent, while nonetheless still profoundly grounded in, and grounding, a particular body and life and grammar and readiness and necessity and suffering and *judgment*--such is the language of literature, or at least Lisa Lewis'brand of literature

      5 out of 5 stars Excerpts from a longer review of Lewis's book.......1998-07-29

      Lisa Lewis\222s second book of poems,_Silent Treatment_,extends the belief-nonbelief conundrum at the heart of her previouscollection. It also continues her earlier work of self-conscious and courageous reckoning with experience, body, and language.

      I\222ve always been engaged by the mixing, in Lewis\222s poems, of near oracular grace with sometimes ungainly everyday speech; by her peculiar balancing of irony, tenderness, and self-deprecation with fierce. . .well, with fierce *crabbiness*. The speaker in these poems, though thoroughly self-scrutinizing, is also a resister, a veritable warrior. And one of the things she seems intent on battling is silence, especially when it conceals hypocrisy or harm. I\222ve always been struck by how she can just *say* certain things in her work, however tabooed they may be. Nearly every poem, in fact, happily violates some unacknowledged,consensus-enforced gag order. Every piece shakes us awake, sometimes gently, sometimes not.

      She can say, for instance, that "my students/Are stupid." In one sense,this is an astoundingly rude and crude acknowledgment of what every college teacher in America has surely (in at least one warranted or unwarranted, sacrilegious and punishable-by-death-or-loss-of-tenure moment of weariness and irritation), spoken or thought. "My students," she says, "[a]re stupid."

      But almost in the same instant in which the statement slams into the reader, it buzzes softly open with all its ironic over-and under-tones. It\222s an implicit and amusingly deadpan comment, for one thing, on our cherished but mostly unexamined view of teachers as angelic social martyrs. It\222s also an overtly provocative pronouncement that cannot help but bait someone\227no doubt a student or two, no doubt a critic or two\227to battle, which, for Lewis, is always preferrable to a life of submission; in this case, the grind of tenure-track teaching. And it\222s also overt finger-pointing, which, as it typically does in her work, rapidly results in the speaker\222s awareness of her *own* culpability: "I do what I can but nothing matters..."; "I wanted them to save the world"; "What they don\222t know is how pissed off I am/I can\222t just *be* them again,. . ." and so on. Admitting, after all, that one\222s students are stupid is inherently self-condemning, since it obviously suggests incompetence on the part of the teacher, whose job it is to make students less stupid. She can identify her strengths as well (she herself was a better student; she "only needed a little help, getting started") but she seems to feel that such strengths are mostly past, unrecoverable ("I can\222t just *be* them again"), and she is now helpless before the immense power of time, the autonomous flow of events in her life, and the insidious glances of students who suspect their teacher is "full of s. . t." This is not a comfortable way to be. Lewis doesn\222t let anyone off the hook, least of all herself.

      So this is a poet intent on examining a flawed and brutal world--as well as her own complicity in that world--dead-on. Her poems insist on the hard, terrible, sometimes *ridiculous* reality of an essentially material universe. . . They seek out and try to know or "nail" the awkward social moment, the sexual embarrassment, the difficult memory in all its corporeality\227only to find those things,ultimately, unknowable and unsayable.

      A rape, for example, is not something which should ever be viewed as harmless or forgivable, especially, one would think, by a committed feminist (last I heard, Lewis heads the Oklahoma chapter of NOW.) In "Bogart," however, a description/nailing of such an event only leads to the revelation of its ambiguity and even, disturbingly, its possible harmlessness. (There are even moments of humor in the poem.) The rape is not, in the end, deemed funny or harmless, but the speaker does not arrive at such a conclusion easily. The process of writing poems, for her, is an affirmation of and engagement with *manners* (in Flannery O\222Connor\222s sense of the word), even as she struggles with the *mystery* that very process unleashes. Language is a glass boat that keeps us above water, safe, bounded, and fixed\227while at the same time making present to us a vast, deadly, profoundly unfixed thing mere inches away\227making present, perhaps, the boat itself as that vast, deadly, profoundly unfixed thing. Or perhaps language in its practical and everyday functions creates the illusion of safety so that we may effectively be and act in the world--while language in its literary functions may reveal that illusion for what it is,reveal even the precariousness of language itself. (Literature as the antidote to to language!)

      For this poet, however, a better metaphor than the glass boat is, of course, the horse. Where would any good warrior be, after all, without one?. . .

      Poems, like horses, were "invented to bring us back to earth". But if one is brought back close enough to, or confronts deeply enough, that earth (body/memory/love; burdensome everyday life), what seems to be encountered are intolerable contradictions, a profusion of opposites: indulgence in self/erasure of self; talk/silence; isolation/communion; oblivion/godhead, and so on. All things simultaneously resisted and sought-for by this doomed and persistent poet, so intent on *speaking* what the world actually is...

      Language freed of will and intentionality, while nonetheless still profoundly grounded in (and grounding) the particular human body and grammar and experience and readiness it requires for its very existence--such is the language of literature, or at least Lisa Lewis\222s brand of literature. It is what she says despite herself; it is what gets said despite language itself. Despite silence itself. It is what shakes both poet and reader awake to "sharply human woes."

      And it is this book of funny, frightening, wise and accomplished poems.

      5 out of 5 stars Lisa Lewis's SILENT TREATMENT is a deeply feminist project........1998-07-24

      Lisa Lewis's SILENT TREATMENT, chosen by Stanley Plumly aswinner of the National Poetry Series, interrogates and celebrates witha humor so real that it surprises itself: ". . . If I tried to be funny/ I couldn't be drowsy anymore, though sometimes/ I wake myself laughing. A strange laugh . . ." (Morning Snowfall) Hers is a deeply feminist, which is to say human, project, uncertain, self-accusing, ironic, wakeful of Luce Irigaray's sense of "the horror of nothing to see." I am frankly appalled that one online reviewer characterizes her as "spacey" and further advises "those who would study" with her to "take note" In fact, Lewis may be the best medicine for the workshop poem. In "Sexology" she says, "My student asked, How do I say in a poem I cried all night? I said,/ You can't. You have to make the reader cry all night instead. I was wrong." After this typical workshop interaction: " I tell my students, Don't talk about tears in a poem. That's what I was taught,/ I accepted the implicit wisdom. I knew why poems can't talk about tears." Then later: "We talk about poems as an economy. You can't talk about tears as payment./ You can't earn them. You can't talk about what they're worth. They're not" The poem itself does not accept "the implicit wisdom," the very disruptive, converging form. These poems refuse easy pedantry. They are first of all questioning, daringly excessive, ranging from slang to song to vision. They humiliate the drive by review which characterizes their ironies as "runaway," their people as "phony . . . stupid . . . young." They do investigate assumptions, often about women, even by women, such as the character in "The Fine Arts" who is "ashamed/ Of what her body can do . . ." who has "no words . . . even to her husband, even when he's/ Lying beside her in bed, witnessing whatever/ Matters to him." These are poems which matter, which disrupt a particular online sensibility "where people/ Like to have certain things but don't like to go far to get them."
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              With diligence and divine guidance they pursued more information than that supplied by the physicians. In a quest to be proactive toward a more accurate diagnosis, she found limited resources relating to the emotional and spiritual aspects of cancer. This lack of information increased her resolve to provide a tool that would support others through a more appropriate diagnosis and guide them in understanding the possibility of denial.

              It is her belief that there is a necessity for knowledge that combines both God and ones need for spirituality in the midst of receiving a proper diagnosis, treatment, and healing. This compilation of material will afford you the knowledge you need as you move toward a cure.

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              I purchased this book first because a friend wrote it and second because I am currently dealing with prostate cancer. The information contained within is proving invaluable by taking the everyday medical jargon and disseminating it into laymen terms. Further, it gave me the spiritual enlightment needed when dealing with this life debilitating event. Thank you

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