The Cancer Match

Dickey, James

Primary Category: Literature / Poetry

Genre: Poem

Annotated by:
Chen, Irene
Aull, Felice
  • Date of entry: Mar-05-2002

Summary

The narrator is a patient with advanced cancer who has come home from the hospital after being told that "medicine has no hope." Yet, for one night, he strives to overcome his cancer with drink, his "Basic Life Force," and hope.

Primary Source

The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead, and Mercy

Publisher

Bantam Doubleday Dell: Doubleday

Publisher

Bantam Doubleday Dell: Doubleday

Place Published

Garden City, N.Y.

Place Published

Garden City, N.Y.

Edition

1970

Edition

1970