“Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. on the Poems in After the Operation“
Poetry alum (’09) Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. talks about her new book After the Operation in Poetry Daily’s “What Sparks Poetry.”
Read an excerpt below.
Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. on the Poems in After the Operation
The first poems in After the Operation arrived unnoticed. Literally unnoticed.
In October of 2020, during New York City’s deep COVID lockdown, I met on Zoom with the Chief of Neurosurgery at NYU/Langone to discuss my most recent brain scan. The benign meningioma tumor we had discovered by accident in 2014 was, in fact, growing. Slowly, but surely. While I had no discernible symptoms, he recommended that in the next four to six years I should consider having it removed.
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