Proof of Life on Earth by Degna Stone Simon & Schuster What followed was months on

What followed was months on the wards: six weeks in an induced coma

as it became known

' — Colin Herd

but a sequence of visions’

The philosophical

Proof of Life on Earth by Degna Stone Simon & Schuster What followed was months onYou live and then you die. Thats the only certainty there is, right? Using love as its guide, Proof of Life on Earth, the debut poetry collection by Degna Stone, looks at all the stops between our arrival and our departure. These poems examine matters of the heart (both the metaphorical and medical kind), of race and discrimination, of the body, mind and self each in forensic detail, attentive and curious of what moves, shapes, and makes us alive. In