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Poetry anthologies are legion, and a great many of them are satisfying, but it's something to crow about when, reading one of them, you find not just splendid work by names you've never heard of--that's a perennial pleasure afforded by any form of literature--but splendid work by poets whose own books have displeased or bored you, poems so good they make you question your judgment. In this big book full of strictly contemporary poems, you can make such discoveries over and over, but it doesn't challenge your judgment; rather, it confirms the excellence of editor Mukand's. Physician and poet himself, he's been collecting poems on medicine for quite some time (an earlier, shorter incarnation of this book was Sutured Words [1987]). He's selected with patients, patients' friends and family members, health-care workers, and health caregivers all in mind, and separate sections of the anthology are devoted to poems reflecting the experiences and views of members of each group. Indeed, other sections are full of the perspectives of even finer groupings--"Women: Flowers of Ether in My Hair," for example, also "Disability: Their Lockstep Tight as Lilac Buds." Perhaps the best that can be said of the book is that there really is something in here for everyone, that poetry lovers and those who haven't read a poem since high school will find words here that will illuminate them, shake them, and comfort them. Ray Olson
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“This gem of a thematic anthology achieves the seemingly impossible—twice. First, in more than 400 pages, it contains not a single clinker. Second, it returns poetry to the people, for one or another of these poems about sickness, hospitals, and suffering affords inspiration, comfort, knowledge, or emotional impact for virtually everyone.”—Booklist
“[This anthology] asserts that the body's emergencies inspire poetry; so urgent are their subjects, some of the poems seem almost to have been written in blood, without a moment's pause to ponder their implications… [Mukand's work] admirably attempts to bring together some of the most important poetry on illness, work that lays bare the awful, exquisite, and jutting bones of the body disrupted.”—Parnassus
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This review is from: Articulations: The Body and Illness in Poetry (Paperback)
This anthology is very well done; I enjoyed it and found some of the poetry to wow me with its powers.
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more interesting than great poetry,
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Quality of poetry is uneven, but an interesting collection. (Standard measured against =Milosz, Oliver, Whitman). Plenty of categories to browse. A different anthology worth having for people who enjoy poetry.
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