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Book Nook: Chimera

Motherhood Moments

Chimera , Buchanan’s fourth book of poems, tells in lyrically oblique confessions and hallucinatory vignettes the difficult but nevertheless wonderful history and aftermath of the author’s 2016 stem cell transplant. Davis Medical Center in 2016. During this time, he was diagnosed with B-cell lymphoma induced by the Epstein-Barr virus.