Poetic exploration of caregiving, mortality, and illness from within the medical establishment.
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Cortney Davis is both a nurse practitioner and a fine poet. In Details of Flesh, she brings poetry and caregiving together with lyrical, evocative language that perfectly captures the tangibility of her subject. The richness of each moment in the high- stakes setting of sickness, healing, and death informs Davis's writing with a quiet honesty and a watchful eye. In "What the Nurse Likes," for instance, Davis expresses the beauty found even in death: "I like how dying patients become beautiful. / Their eyes concentrate light. Their skin / becomes thin and delicate as fog." Thomas Lux writes that the compassionate, courageous poems in Details of Flesh are "powerful and beautiful."
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The Barking Dog
Becoming The Patient
Blood Clot
The Body Flute
Cloudburst
Details Of Flesh
Doctor, 8 P.m.
Duet
First Breast
Flashback
Four Masks: The Mask I Passed On To My Children
Four Masks: The Mask I See In The Mirror
Four Masks: The Mask I Swore My Mother Wore
Four Masks: The Mask I Wore For My Mother
The Good Nurse
Hemorrhage, 3 A.m.
How I Imagine It
I Hear The Cries Of Women
Night Nurse
The Nurse's Task
Nurse, 7 A. M.
Old Lady Patient
Old Men Name The Planets
On Not Loving Your Chldren
On The Wards
Patient In Surgery, 7 A. M.
Ritual Bath, 1955
Slow Code
The Smoke We Make Pictures Of
Staring Into The Point Where The Tracks Merge
Suffering
This Happened
To The Husband Who Stands At The Sink, Intent On Shaving
To The Mother Of The Burned Children
Tumor Board
Visiting My Father In The Hospital
What Man Might Kill
What The Nurse Likes
The Woman Who Lost Her Breast To Cancer And Said She Didn't Mind
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
The Barking Dog
Becoming The Patient
Blood Clot
The Body Flute
Cloudburst
Details Of Flesh
Doctor, 8 P.m.
Duet
First Breast
Flashback
Four Masks: The Mask I Passed On To My Children
Four Masks: The Mask I See In The Mirror
Four Masks: The Mask I Swore My Mother Wore
Four Masks: The Mask I Wore For My Mother
The Good Nurse
Hemorrhage, 3 A.m.
How I Imagine It
I Hear The Cries Of Women
Night Nurse
The Nurse's Task
Nurse, 7 A. M.
Old Lady Patient
Old Men Name The Planets
On Not Loving Your Chldren
On The Wards
Patient In Surgery, 7 A. M.
Ritual Bath, 1955
Slow Code
The Smoke We Make Pictures Of
Staring Into The Point Where The Tracks Merge
Suffering
This Happened
To The Husband Who Stands At The Sink, Intent On Shaving
To The Mother Of The Burned Children
Tumor Board
Visiting My Father In The Hospital
What Man Might Kill
What The Nurse Likes
The Woman Who Lost Her Breast To Cancer And Said She Didn't Mind
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Cortney Davis has crafted an excellent collection of poems based on her life experiences. It explores the realities of life, as a nurse practitioner and private life, succinctly and truthfully. Her poems leave the reader to gather what they might from the context, even though many of the meanings are quite literal.
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- Selected Poems by Eugenio Montale in Back Matter
- Raising the Tents by Frances Payne Adler in Back Matter
- Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected by Dick Allen in Front Matter
- Idleness Is the Root of All Love by Christa Reinig in Back Matter
- In China with Harpo and Karl by Sibyl James in Back Matter
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- Cracking the Earth: A 25th Anniversary Anthology from CALYX by Beverly McFarland in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- I Knew a Woman: Four Women Patients and Their Female Caregiver by Cortney Davis in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Truth and Lies: An Anthology of Poems by Patrice Vecchione in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- I Knew a Woman: The Experience of the Female Body by Cortney Davis in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- New Working-Class Studies (Ilr Press Book) by John Russo on page 123, and Back Matter
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