title: "A sudden lift of wings": Poetry and prose about Alzheimer's disease.
abstract: The editor has collected poems from people who have cared for loved ones with Alzheimer's disease. The writers range from prize-winning poets to amateurs, but all share in common a passion, an experience that evokes from them emotions they long to rest in the crystal of poetry. Their poems illuminate the dark terrors of this most disabling and dehumanizing disease, and, perhaps surprisingly, reveal an ancient truth: that love is stronger than death.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Renal Section 5100, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago IL 60637, USA. f-coe@uchicago.edu
authors.forename: Fredric L
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Coe
mesh_terms: D000544:Alzheimer Disease; D001294:Attitude to Health; D006801:Humans; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D011037:Poetry as Topic