Remembrance of Things Present: Making Peace with Dementia - Softcover

Maeck, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1941830803 ISBN 13: 9781941830802

Publisher: Shanti Arts LLC, 2017

Synopsis

Caring for an aging father diagnosed with Alzheimer's stirs a multitude of experiences and feelings. Poet and photographer Peter Maeck approaches this extremely difficult time of life with extraordinary mindfulness and compassion. In rhyming verse and his own photographs Maeck depicts how he and his father "moved from a prose relationship into one of poetry . . . less literal and more metaphorical . . . engaging more in rhyme than in reason." Remembrance of Things Present is an important book for our time as dementia nears epidemic proportions; it is wisdom gleaned from facing one of life's most horrific afflictions with word, image, and love.

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About the Author

Peter Maeck is a poet, playwright, and photographer whose work has been produced and exhibited both in the United States and internationally. He served as a U.S. State Department American Cultural Specialist in Tanzania and Morocco, and he has created training programs for major U.S. corporations. He holds a B.A. in English from Dartmouth College and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Brandeis University. He has presented "Remembrance of Things Present" as a TEDx Talk in the U.S. and abroad. - www.petermaeck.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Shanti Arts LLC
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1941830803
• ISBN 13: 9781941830802
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 70