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The Double Legacy

by Rachel Hadas

In the late spring of 1992, poet Rachel Hadas's mother died of cancer. Six weeks later, a close friend died of AIDS. The Double Legacy is a moving sequence of essays on the aftermath of these deaths in Hadas's life. A busy teacher and writer, wife and mother, daughter and friend, Hadas found her life dominated first by the two terminal illnesses of those beloved people and then by their two deaths - deaths startlingly close together in time and space. These experiences, which infused her thoughts and dreams, quickly became and for some time remained central to her writing. Interweaving...

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