Now I Lay Me Down to Fight

<p><strong>In stirring verse and essays, Katy Bowser Hutson chronicles her battle with breast cancer and the complications of faith amid such a fight.</strong> Accentuated by the art of Jodi Hays, Katy's words lead us through the realization of cancer, the experience of chemotherapy and a mastectomy, relentless rounds of radiation, the uncertainty of ongoing treatment, and what comes after survival. She writes in resistance to sickness, of wrestling toward beauty:</p><p><em>Cancer is an overgrowth, a kudzu:Tangling and strangling legitimate life.<br />Chemo is a killing, a burning out: <br />Burning down to ashy carbon, indiscriminately<br />But cancer, did you know that I am a poet?</em></p><p>Through it all, she shows what it means to struggle in a battered body and to pray to a God who is near to the broken. Join her in this consideration of mortality and witness her persisting trust in God's unseen ways.</p>