Facing the Sky: Composing through Trauma in Word and Image

Roy F. Fox Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition Edited by Thomas Rickert and Jennifer Bay Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-449-4 (paperback, $32); 978-1-60235-450-0 (hardcover, $65.00); 978-1-60235-451-7 (PDF, $19.99) © 2016 by Parlor Press. 314 pages with notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. Interview Listen to an interview with Roy F. Fox about Facing the Sky by Trevor Mattea at New Books in Education. About This Book At forty-one, Lucy was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Kate lost her husband in a freak accident. These women—practical, intelligent, perceptive—were also language experts who had devoted their lives to the study and teaching of reading and writing. When these traumas shattered their normal lives, they turned to writing. Through extensive interviews, correspondence, and close analysis of their public and personal writing, Roy F. Fox details why and how writing hel