Aching for the Amen: A Long Poem

A prayer, a plea, a testimony. Working from a deep, abiding belief, and a skill for laying down couplets, Dannielle Carr offers a poetic divine comedy. She recounts her husband’s, and her own, arduous and intimate journey through the promises and torments of his Stage Four cancer, in the hands of a medical system that, if unwittingly, offers as much torment as hope, testing the speaker’s faith at every turn. — Johnny Payne, MFA Program Director at Mount St. Mary's