Benedet, Rosalind, and Bob Hogenmiller, After Mastectomy: Healing Physically and Emotionally, Addicus Books, 2003.

Benedet, an experienced oncology nurse who has helped hundreds of women recover from mastectomies, offers important guides to emotional and physical recovery, including reconstruction options. Hogenmiller provides detailed photographs of the surgery and of the healing process.

Lucas, Geralyn, Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy, St. Martin’s Press, 2004.

The twenty-seven-year-old author, producer of the television show 20/20, chronicles her bout with breast cancer, including her emotional response and coping strategies pre- and post-surgery.

Perkins, David, A History of Modern Poetry, Vol. 2: Modernism and After, Belknap Press, 2004.

Perkins examines the works of individual poets published up to the twenty-first century as well as important movements such as modernism, beat poetry, and confessional poetry. He notes the distinctiveness and the interconnectedness among the poets in these movements and addresses the critical response...