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Sean Nevin's poetry collection, Oblivion Gate, explores his experiences with his grandfather's struggle with Alzheimer's disease and the writing groups he led with Alzheimer's patients.
In closing, here are some lines from the poet Sean Nevin, who's also led writing groups with Alzheimer's patients and lived through his own grandfather's struggle with this disease. This is an excerpt...
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Sean Nevin's poetry collection, Oblivion Gate, explores his experiences with his grandfather's struggle with Alzheimer's disease and the writing groups he led with Alzheimer's patients.
In closing, here are some lines from the poet Sean Nevin, who's also led writing groups with Alzheimer's patients and lived through his own grandfather's struggle with this disease. This is an excerpt from his collection of poetry about those experiences, oblivio gate.
The moon is the rice paper lantern left burning in the garden, long after the last house light is put down. Wind sweeps its circles across the empty lawn and back again. All night, I search you for signs of recognition. Solomon, Solomon? I float your name out into the darkness, a word, a flame, a silver prayer kite rising, rice paper, balsa, twine for the rigging. Remember this. Remember.