Abram van Engen

Now I Lay Me Down to Fight

Arts & Literature

“In this extraordinary book of poems, Katy Bowser Hutson names, knows, and faces the fear of cancer and all it contrives to take away. On each page, she steps through the unknowing, now resting, now fighting, always finding in language not just the death and darkness that follow from the fall, but also the grace that rises each day to meet it. 'I know the fall, and the overcome,' she writes. 'Running down fear with beauty,' she gives us a schooling in both. This book is a scarred gift, an unsentimental balm for the wounded, an illumination for us all.”