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Poetry in Medicine

By Michael Salcman

Poetry in Medicine Medicine

Poetry in Medicine

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For millennia poets have described the ailments of the body and those who treat them. Infused with hope, heartbreak, and unexpected humor, this book gathers diverse poems about our medical experiences-poems about doctors and patients, remedies and procedures, illnesses and convalescence-each one prescribing a unique perspective and new revelations.  A literary elixir, Poetry in Medicine showcases not only the breadth of poetry's relationship to medicine, but also the genre's unparalleled capacity to heal us. Contributors include Auden, Baudelaire, Berryman, Blake, Bishop, Boland, Campo, Cavafy, Clampitt, Chaucer, Clifton, Cummings, Dickinson, Donne, Conan Doyle, Eliot, Frost, Gunn, Hall, Hass, Hayden, Hirsch, Heaney, O. W. Holmes, Kooser, Larkin, Longfellow, Lowell, Merrill, Milne, Milton, Nash, Ovid, Pinsky, Plath, Rilke, Shakespeare, Seshardi, Sexton, Stevens, Szymborska, Whitman, Williams, Yeats, et al.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
400
Release Date:
2015-03-16
Publication Date:
2015-03-16
Publisher:
Persea Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0892554495
ISBN13:
9780892554492
Weight:
538 g
Height:
149 cm
Width:
228 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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