New York City, New York Nov 11, 2025 (Issuewire.com) - Cancer Courts My Mother by LindaAnn LoSchiavo has received two literary distinctions: the BREW Seal of Excellence from The Chrysalis BREW Project and the Voyages of Verses Award from OneTribune Media.
The BREW Seal of Excellence recognizes literary works that demonstrate strong thematic coherence, craft, and contribution to contemporary writing. In its published review, The Chrysalis BREW Project stated that Cancer Courts My Mother consists of twenty-five poems. Each and every piece is a raw depiction of LoSchiavos feelings. She masterfully uses metaphors and allegories to portray her experience. The poems blur the boundaries between visionary art and lived experience, yet being presented as a work of fiction.
The review further noted that Cancer is personified as the relentless lover of her mother. It is likened to a suitor who does not take no for an answer. The publication rated the book 5 out of 5 across all categories, citing its effective balance of emotional content and literary form.
Cancer Courts My Mother also received the Voyages of Verses Award from OneTribune Media, an honor given to literary works that expand the horizon of what literature can achieve. In its feature, OneTribune Media described the book as a fictionalized collection of poems that dares to imagine illness, love, and loss as a single intertwined story. The review stated, This is not straightforward autobiography. LoSchiavo frames her story as fiction, granting herself the creative distance to turn pain into pattern.
OneTribune Media added that the collection redefines the boundary between fiction and memory, emphasizing the poets use of imaginative expression to convey emotional authenticity.
Both recognitions cite the works use of metaphor and poetic structure to explore the subject of terminal illness, caregiving, and familial relationships through a fictionalized yet emotionally grounded lens.
The book was released by Prolific Pulse Press LLC and is available in print and digital formats via major retailers including Amazon and Barnes ^ Noble.
About the Book
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Defying Expectations, a Caregivers Journey Is Told as a Story of Adultery In "Cancer Courts My Mother" by LindaAnn LoSchiavo, disease becomes a Casanova
Mistrustful of the poetics of dying and bereavement, and determined to avoid cliché, LindaAnn LoSchiavo has alighted on a form which eschews the elegiac in favor of a two-way narrative arc structured like a funicular.
The downward movement, a terminally ill patients inevitable decline, is presented as marital peril: a dangerous dalliance. Disease is disguised as an illicit lover the dark prince whose wanton seduction has already begun, the sly suitor who will reach the terminus.
In contrast, the ascending movement is hopeful, told through the sub-plot of fulfilling a last request: Work miracles, commanded half-shut eyes. By carefully reversing little green deaths, the poems transform a wish into reality: a full recovery of the dying womans cherished houseplants.
Matt Potter, Editor-in-Chief of Pure Slush Publishing, offered this praise: Real and harried, purposeful and comprehensive, when understanding is sought and reason is not always kind, "Cancer Courts My Mother" provides readers with great measures of meaning.
Some poems in this poignant collection have won individual prizes and were seen in literary journals in five countries, Australia, Canada, England, Hungary, and the USA.
"Cancer Courts My Mother" gives voice to the creativity borne out of the experience of late-stage cancer from the perspective of a caregiver and a daughter. Written with candor, warmth, and heart-wrenching grace, these poems explore universal themes of sorrow, resiliency, relationships, anger, hope, and love. This collection is for those who wonder how to go forward in the face of suffering, but who don't expect an easy answer.
A "Celebration of Prolific Poets of 2025" to be held virtually via zoom on November 18 will feature six poets including LindaAnn LoSchiavo. This is a great opportunity to hear thoughtful poetry and meet this fabulous author
About the Author
Native New Yorker and award-winner, LindaAnn LoSchiavo is a member of British Fantasy Society, Horror Writers Association, Science Fiction Poetry Association, and The Dramatists Guild.
Her craft essays have appeared in Writers Digest, Authors Publish Magazine, Beyond Craft, Behind the Pages, Roi Fainéant, Review Tales, etc.
Between 2018-2025, she has had nine chapbooks and two full-length collections released by various presses in the USA, the UK, and India.
Book Accolades: Elgin Award for "A Route Obscure and Lonely"; Chrysalis BREW Projects Award for Excellence and The Worlds Best Magazines Book of Excellence Award for "Always Haunted: Halloween Poems"; and the Spotlyts Story Award from Spotlyts Magazine for "Apprenticed to the Night."
Additionally, "Always Haunted: Halloween Poems" achieved recognition as a 3rd Place Finalist in Chrysalis BREW Projects Readers Choice Awards, 2024 - 2025.
Book Awards:
Winner of . . . .
BREW Seal of Excellence from The Chrysalis BREW Project and the Voyages of Verses Award from OneTribune Media.
Award nomination: CLMPs Firecracker Award
Artist Statement
" every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome "
Adrienne Rich
Perhaps because I grew up in a Roman Catholic family, I am drawn to acrostics (crosses) and the punitive syllable counting (the rosary) required by formal verse. I often employ traditional forms that harness language and shape unruly thoughts. I use rhyme both internal and end line conceding to a self-conscious artifice that rearranges the unfamiliar into something less formidable, i.e., personifying Cancer as my mothers devoted and determined suitor.
Everything has a border, the edge where light cannot get in.In this poetry collection, Ive tried to illuminate the difficult daily rituals of taking care of a patient who will neither show improvement nor recuperate.
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Cancer Courts My Mother
LindaAnn LoSchiavo
Genre: Speculative Poetry
Publisher: Prolific Pulse Press
Distributor: IngramSpark
Date of Publication: November 07, 2025
ISBN 978-1-962374-64-4 Paperback
ISBN 978-1-962374-65-1 ePub
ASIN: B0FXH4XD72
Number of pages: 44
Number of poems: 25
Word Count: 3,500 approx.
Cover Art:Erin Caldwell
Book Trailer & promo art: Giulia Massarin
Source :Prolific Pulse Press LLC
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