Aphids in the Rose
Baranow, Joan![Aphids in the Rose](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/442/44216191/CHSBZCOP0344216191.jpg)
Of Joan Baranow's Aphids in the Rose, poet Alicia Ostriker affirms, "This is a book every woman who has had-or might have-breast cancer, should read and cherish." In this chapbook Baranow charts her intimate experience of breast cancer, from the shock of diagnosis to treatment to healing. She does not shy away from the blunt language of medicine, but wields a language of precision and apt metaphor in presenting a world where "force / asserts i...