Jeannie Piekos is a poet, writer, cancer survivor. Author of Buoyancy: a memoir and subject of the documentary, Buoyancy: Living Between Dualities
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Writing about cancer

12/4/2018

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Cancer threw me into a vortex, agitated and spun me around until I was completely disoriented—and then spit me back out into vaguely familiar, but eerily not-quite-right territory. In writing and assembling this memoir, I felt the absurdity of trying to make sense of the messiness of disease, of trying to cram the entirety of my experience into a tidy, outlined format, to impose expository control on the discombobulation of cancer and create order out of the bedlam of disease. It’s near impossible.  

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    Jeannie piekos
    writer, poet, cancer survivor, MOTHER, life-navigator, yoga practitioner, spokes-woman,  ENTHUSIAST, GRANDMOTHER, wife, art activist, dreamer​

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Praise for Buoyancy

Jeannie begets love and that love grows from her and beyond her and then grows some more. Her family, friends, community, art, poems, gardens, beloved dogs, fun-loving smart-ass sense of humor, candor, vulnerability and indomitableness are revealed in these pages. --Amy Ballestad, Heart of the Beast Puppet & Mask Theatre
       --Amy Ballestad, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater
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So much love is in this memoir! Only a fine poet whose touch is light as a feather can levitate her readers with words the way Jeannie Piekos does with her cancer memoir, Buoyancy. This book and its author are beautiful and brave and strong and will make readers feel beautiful and brave and strong.

--Mike Hazard, writer

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