This is Not My Nose

Michael Rosen

From Shelf: My Books 2004

The second collection of poems by the author of "Carrying the Elephant". This is an account of the author's life before he was diagnosed with hypothyroid - and the long path to recovery.

A companion volume to Carrying the Elephant, Michael Rosen tells the the story of his undiagnosed illness - a malfunctioning thyroid gland - which turned him into somebody he could hardly recognize: large, lethargic, ill at ease in the world. After 15 years it took just a simple course of drugs to turn him back into the real Mike Rosen. Painful, funny, scrupulously honest, these are poems that touch the heart but deal with the profoundest matters.

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