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Between the Heartbeats: Poetry & Prose by Nurses

by Cortney Davis

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What nurses know about care giving is different from what doctors and families know. The nurses in this collection talk about inpatients, outpatients, and home patients; these patients' attendants are young and old, female and, increasingly, male. Some of the nurses are dispassionately efficient; others wickedly admit to the excitement of voyeurism; all have unusual access to the depths and shallows of human emotion. By unsentimentally translating our suffering into prose and poetry, the nurses in Between the Heartbeats performs another enduring act of loving care. The forty-nine registered nurses in this brave, graceful, first-ever anthology represent thousands more. Their words expand the practice of nursing and the practice of language. By beating witness to the intimate details of nursing, from the mundane to the beautiful to the tragic, they reveal the epiphanies of life and death.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780877455165
Subtitle:
Poetry and Prose by Nurses
Editor:
Davis, Cortney
Foreword:
Trautmann Banks, Joanne
Editor:
Davis, Cortney
Editor:
Schaefer, Judy
Editor:
Schaefer, Judy
Editor:
Schaefer, Judy
Publisher:
University of Iowa Press
Subject:
Short Stories (Anthologies)
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Anthologies (multiple authors)
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
American literature
Subject:
Collections
Subject:
Nurses
Subject:
American literature -- 20th century.
Subject:
Nurses' writings, American.
Edition Description:
Revised
Publication Date:
November 1995
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
240
Dimensions:
9.62x5.80x.76 in. 1.02 lbs.
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