Nursing Home Blues

Nursing Home Blues PDF Author: Radomir Vojtech Luza
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665544740
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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This light, this sword, this sabre, this Great White Shark, this grand collection of poetry, then, eats its way through any hole or depression. It is the sun to the disappearing moon, Jupiter to Mars, living in paradise not behind bars. Written in and around Grand Valley Healthcare Center, the nursing home in Van Nuys, CA where Luza has spent the last ten or so months, this landmark autobiographical poetry collection embraces the pain, suffering, frustration, longing and suicidal tendencies that come with a true artist's imprisonment in one of these facilities. So, freedom chained, love aborted and harmony molested, here he is swinging for any fence he can find. If the questions are: Why is human kind on earth? Where did we come from? What does it mean to be human? Then, NURSING HOME BLUES has the answers spiritually, philosophically, metaphysically, emotionally, intellectually and psychologically. Tomorrow is a blue dawn, yesterday a red maple and today a green meadow. This tome is a buffet for poets and a cornucopia for writers and thinkers alike. Do not put it down!!

Let Our Eyes Linger

Let Our Eyes Linger PDF Author: Hayes Davis
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365005194
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 85

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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."

I Never Told Anybody

I Never Told Anybody PDF Author: Kenneth Koch
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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The Poetry of Nursing

The Poetry of Nursing PDF Author: Judy Schaefer
Publisher: Literature and Medicine
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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This anthology of contemporary nurse-poets' work adds significantly to the ever-growing body of literature that connects medicine, nursing, and the humanities.

Taking Care of Time

Taking Care of Time PDF Author: Cortney Davis
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628953233
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99

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For poet and nurse practitioner Cortney Davis, the truth revealed through poetry is similar to what she has experienced in the heightened and urgent dramas that occur in health care—those suspended moments in which a dying heart might be revived or unbearable suffering relieved. We are vulnerable, her poems say, and we are dependent on one another—on the ways in which we care or fail to care for one another, in how we love or fail to love. In poems that are sensual, emotionally searing, and yet unfailingly tender, Davis shines a caregiver’s light on the most intimate details of the human body and the spirit within—how the flesh might betray, how it endures, and how ultimately it triumphs.

Intensive Care

Intensive Care PDF Author: Cortney Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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In Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses, sixty-five nurses from places as diverse as California and Alaska, South America and Europe, tell us in tough, revealing poems and prose what it's like to be on the front lines of health care. These nurses, both men and women, speak to us from intensive care units and operating rooms, from patients' homes and storefront clinics, from hospitals with the latest technology to small clinics in the steamy jungles of Nicaragua. They tell us what it's like to walk in their shoes and see the drama of illness and healing unfold before their eyes.

Between the Heartbeats

Between the Heartbeats PDF Author: Cortney Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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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.

Care Home Stories

Care Home Stories PDF Author: Sally Chivers
Publisher: Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner
ISBN: 9783837638059
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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Biographical note: Sally Chivers is a Full Professor in the Departments of English and Gender & Women's Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, and a founding executive member of the Trent Centre for Aging and Society. Ulla Kriebernegg is an Associate Professor at the Center for Inter-American Studies of the University of Graz, Austria, and chair of the European Network in Aging Studies.

A Nursing Love Poem

A Nursing Love Poem PDF Author: Michelle Neyland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999056202
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Who's Asking?

Who's Asking? PDF Author: Keith Ratzlaff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781934695623
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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To say these poems balance on the fulcrum between grief and joy is too easy. Who's Asking? is a book of questions - about the nature of wonder, of meaning, questions about being caught between earth and heaven like the angels of Paul Klee's paintings who speak some of these poems. In other words, questions about the rigorous yet remorseless undertaking of being human. Large questions that bulge with a terrible asking but also those that bloom from close observation of the most ordinary circumstance. All of them shaded by the unrelenting awareness that Nobody gets saved. And yet this book is gifted with unexpected humor, unequivocal wisdom.

Nursing Home Blues

Nursing Home Blues PDF Author: Radomir Vojtech Luza
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665544740
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Book Description
This light, this sword, this sabre, this Great White Shark, this grand collection of poetry, then, eats its way through any hole or depression. It is the sun to the disappearing moon, Jupiter to Mars, living in paradise not behind bars. Written in and around Grand Valley Healthcare Center, the nursing home in Van Nuys, CA where Luza has spent the last ten or so months, this landmark autobiographical poetry collection embraces the pain, suffering, frustration, longing and suicidal tendencies that come with a true artist's imprisonment in one of these facilities. So, freedom chained, love aborted and harmony molested, here he is swinging for any fence he can find. If the questions are: Why is human kind on earth? Where did we come from? What does it mean to be human? Then, NURSING HOME BLUES has the answers spiritually, philosophically, metaphysically, emotionally, intellectually and psychologically. Tomorrow is a blue dawn, yesterday a red maple and today a green meadow. This tome is a buffet for poets and a cornucopia for writers and thinkers alike. Do not put it down!!