David Watts has the eye, ear and heart of a poet and, just as importantly for this book, the poetic subject that allows him to use his considerable powers to their fullest the human body with all its frailty and strength as a metaphor for our existence. With linguistic precision for image and phrase that recalls William Carlos Williams' "Plum blossoms on the ground / like frost flakes. And my friend lies still / in the ICU..." David Watts convinces the reader that "the body needs a washing out" and that "the heart can harm itself," leaving us with the recognition that our body is the world and the world is our body. I love these poems for presenting the horrifying fragility of our existence and the incredible resilience and strength with which we meet our individual fates." Len Roberts, Poet
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David Watts has the eye, ear and heart of a poet and, just as importantly for this book, the poetic subject that allows him to use his considerable powers to their fullest the human body with all its frailty and strength as a metaphor for our existence. With linguistic precision for image and phrase that recalls William Carlos Williams' "Plum blossoms on the ground / like frost flakes. And my friend lies still / in the ICU..." David Watts convinces the reader that "the body needs a washing out" and that "the heart can harm itself," leaving us with the recognition that our body is the world and the world is our body. I love these poems for presenting the horrifying fragility of our existence and the incredible resilience and strength with which we meet our individual fates." -- Len Roberts, Poet
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These poems and essays by David Watts bring into focus the complicated relationship between physician and patient. This book explores the meaning of technology, the body, and the healing process and can be read and re-read, with new discovery each time.
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A great observing doctor's powerful poems,
By A. Caplin (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Taking the History (Paperback)
I am so grateful to David Watts, MD for his poetry. The poems wake doctors up, tell us how we are, what we struggle with, how we can categorize people, how our egos can get in the way of good medicine, how we can learn from our patients and be better doctors. I use this powerful little book of poems to get doctors talking, then writing of their own experiences, both as doctors and as patients. It's powerful medicine.
Abby Caplin, MD, MA San Francisco, CA Mind-Body Medicine and Counseling
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