Author Description

Little Palace of Illness is a palimpsest of relationships—with mothers and fathers, with siblings, with husbands and lovers, friends and even pets. Ana Manwaring explores love and loss in an intimate chronicle pulled from her experiences as a child of divorce, adoption, the loss of her sister to cancer, first love met, lost and lost again. The poems uncover human emotions tied to marriage, death, eldercare and belonging to expose the guilt and anger, yearnings, sadness and joys, and love that lead to the ultimate outcome: Forgiveness and release.