Excerpt of her tale as published on www.guardian.co.uk:
When poet Sarah Manguso’s immune system attacked her nervous system, she was forced to endure years of harrowing treatment. In this poignant extract from her memoir, The Two Kinds of Decay, she describes what happened when her blood became a toxic soup.
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