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Finding Poetry in Illness

A reader’s journey of self-transformation from disease to ease.

BY JENNIFER NIX

		The Healing Improvisation of Hair BY JAY WRIGHT
		The Poetry Ward A doctor dispenses poems to patients and medical students. BY DANIELLE OFRI
		Get Well Soon Poems Poetry from the Poetry Foundation archive to send to a sick friend.
		The Mind’s Own Place BY GEORGE OPPEN

BEST SELLERS

Contemporary Best Sellers for the week of My 13, 2012

1Pity the Beautiful
by Dana Goia (Graywolf Press)

2Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems
by Billy Collins (Random House)

3Life on Mars
by Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf Press )

4New Collected Poems
by Wendell Berry (Counterpoint)

5Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
by Mary Oliver (Random House)