The Healing Notebooks
“Kenny Fries has listened carefully and memorized the expression on another man’s face. An urgent and compassionate awareness.”
The Healing Notebooks
Kenny Fries
Winner of the Gregory Kolovakos Award for AIDS Writing
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award in Poetry
Praise for The Healing Notebooks
“This is no ordinary love story. Fries has recorded all the forward, backward and sideways movements we make as we struggle with despair and hope, denial and fear, the unanswerable questions of an epidemic. These poems become tools which can help us survive.ken”
—Ruth L. Schwartz, San Francisco Bay Times
“Mythic in their simplicity and grace, these poems wail a Kaddish, originating from what Fries calls ‘The rituals of the worried well.’ I cannot imagine more deeply felt and lovingly crafted poems.”
—Jeffery Beam, Small Press Review