Author: Linda Plahitko-Gosnell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781604414394
Category : Older people
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As a gift, someone put a blank-paged book into Linda Plahitko-Gosnellas nerve-damaged hand after a life-altering accident remanded her to a hospital for eight months and a state-operated nursing facility for what she was told would be the rest of her life. Unable to accept such terms, she used this precious gift to practice the simple act of writing again and eventually began penning her journey from despair to stoic faith in God and herself in the poems she calls simply The Nursing Home Poems. With the help of God, her daughter, and a wonderful surgeon, she walked out nine months after entering. Her poems are not only a chronology of her inner struggle to remain emotionally intact during her nursing home experience, but they shine a light on the many faces she encountered that still reside behind the walls of what slowly became for her aThe Shady Rest from Hell.a
The Nursing Home Poems
Author: Linda Plahitko-Gosnell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781604414394
Category : Older people
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As a gift, someone put a blank-paged book into Linda Plahitko-Gosnellas nerve-damaged hand after a life-altering accident remanded her to a hospital for eight months and a state-operated nursing facility for what she was told would be the rest of her life. Unable to accept such terms, she used this precious gift to practice the simple act of writing again and eventually began penning her journey from despair to stoic faith in God and herself in the poems she calls simply The Nursing Home Poems. With the help of God, her daughter, and a wonderful surgeon, she walked out nine months after entering. Her poems are not only a chronology of her inner struggle to remain emotionally intact during her nursing home experience, but they shine a light on the many faces she encountered that still reside behind the walls of what slowly became for her aThe Shady Rest from Hell.a
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781604414394
Category : Older people
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As a gift, someone put a blank-paged book into Linda Plahitko-Gosnellas nerve-damaged hand after a life-altering accident remanded her to a hospital for eight months and a state-operated nursing facility for what she was told would be the rest of her life. Unable to accept such terms, she used this precious gift to practice the simple act of writing again and eventually began penning her journey from despair to stoic faith in God and herself in the poems she calls simply The Nursing Home Poems. With the help of God, her daughter, and a wonderful surgeon, she walked out nine months after entering. Her poems are not only a chronology of her inner struggle to remain emotionally intact during her nursing home experience, but they shine a light on the many faces she encountered that still reside behind the walls of what slowly became for her aThe Shady Rest from Hell.a
I Never Told Anybody
Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Hands of Strangers
Author: Janice N. Harrington
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 1934414670
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
As people live longer, we face the challenges that come with caring for, and living as, an aging population. This collection focuses on the sad, funny, mundane reality of life in a nursing home. In her own words, Janice N. Harrington worked her way through college as a nurses' aide and wrote The Hands of Strangers because she "cannot forget the 'girls' I worked with or the 'residents' under my care. I haven't forgotten what I saw, heard, felt, or learned." Janic N. Harrington's debut Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone earned teh 2007 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, and an NEA fellowship for poetry.
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 1934414670
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
As people live longer, we face the challenges that come with caring for, and living as, an aging population. This collection focuses on the sad, funny, mundane reality of life in a nursing home. In her own words, Janice N. Harrington worked her way through college as a nurses' aide and wrote The Hands of Strangers because she "cannot forget the 'girls' I worked with or the 'residents' under my care. I haven't forgotten what I saw, heard, felt, or learned." Janic N. Harrington's debut Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone earned teh 2007 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, and an NEA fellowship for poetry.
Let Our Eyes Linger
Author: Hayes Davis
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365005194
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Let Our Eyes Linger delves deeply into the author's life as son, grandson, father, husband, artist, and schoolteacher while illuminating currents of racial identity and the plight of other black men. These include Jim, the runaway slave from Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, who speaks here in his own in poems that deepen one of the most complicated and controversial characters in American Literature. Reginald Dwayne Betts calls Let Our Eyes Linger "a testament to how the stories we tell ourselves to get through the day can become the poetry that speaks to more than our own existence." Joshua Wiener praises poems "that dramatize the contingencies of family; of its direct influence on the kinds of language we speak...that draw honestly the flight of eros from the domestic scene, as well as the endurance of love & devotion." Toi Derricote writes that "Davis' poems invite comparisons with Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks' poems of 20thcentury family life."
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365005194
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Let Our Eyes Linger delves deeply into the author's life as son, grandson, father, husband, artist, and schoolteacher while illuminating currents of racial identity and the plight of other black men. These include Jim, the runaway slave from Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, who speaks here in his own in poems that deepen one of the most complicated and controversial characters in American Literature. Reginald Dwayne Betts calls Let Our Eyes Linger "a testament to how the stories we tell ourselves to get through the day can become the poetry that speaks to more than our own existence." Joshua Wiener praises poems "that dramatize the contingencies of family; of its direct influence on the kinds of language we speak...that draw honestly the flight of eros from the domestic scene, as well as the endurance of love & devotion." Toi Derricote writes that "Davis' poems invite comparisons with Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks' poems of 20thcentury family life."
Musing Of A Nursing Home Resident
Author: Mary Morgan
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1619044269
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
I moved into a nursing home after my sister, Martha had died. I was living alone. I have FSH muscular dystrophy that isn't fatal. The disability itself requires a live in a care giver, whom I could not afford. The other residents enjoy reading my poems so I decided to write more and make them into a book. I believe there is a "book" in each of us. We all have life stories to tell, but residents of nursing homes seem to be forgotten numbers in our society. We all need love, company and laughter in our lives. This is a place to live and be cared for. While I am glad to have a home, improvement is needed in its image. If my poems can have help improve this image, then I will have succeeded.
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1619044269
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
I moved into a nursing home after my sister, Martha had died. I was living alone. I have FSH muscular dystrophy that isn't fatal. The disability itself requires a live in a care giver, whom I could not afford. The other residents enjoy reading my poems so I decided to write more and make them into a book. I believe there is a "book" in each of us. We all have life stories to tell, but residents of nursing homes seem to be forgotten numbers in our society. We all need love, company and laughter in our lives. This is a place to live and be cared for. While I am glad to have a home, improvement is needed in its image. If my poems can have help improve this image, then I will have succeeded.
The Poetry of Nursing
Author: Judy Schaefer
Publisher: Literature and Medicine
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This anthology of contemporary nurse-poets' work adds significantly to the ever-growing body of literature that connects medicine, nursing, and the humanities.
Publisher: Literature and Medicine
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This anthology of contemporary nurse-poets' work adds significantly to the ever-growing body of literature that connects medicine, nursing, and the humanities.
Poems from the Nursing Home
Author: Millie Wherritt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Poems from the Twilight of Life
Author: Baqiyyah Conway
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781690837022
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This is a book of poems written by an elderly woman while she was living in an assisted living facility and subsequently a nursing home. She had never written poems prior to this.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781690837022
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This is a book of poems written by an elderly woman while she was living in an assisted living facility and subsequently a nursing home. She had never written poems prior to this.
Between the Heartbeats
Author: Cortney Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
An anthology of poems and prose writings in which nurses reflect on their everyday experiences and their reactions to the joys and tragedies they witness on a daily basis.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
An anthology of poems and prose writings in which nurses reflect on their everyday experiences and their reactions to the joys and tragedies they witness on a daily basis.
From Deep Within
Author: Carol F. Peck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description