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Judy Schaefer has compiled this anthology of contemporary nurse-poets' work, which is accompanied by their commentaries about their poetry, their work, and their lives. She has gathered contributions from some of the best-known nurse-poets as well as from those who deserve to be. The Poetry of Nursing will add significantly to the ever-growing body of literature that connects medicine, nursing, and the humanities.

INTRODUCTION: JUDY SCHAEFER

1

(7)

Who Owns the Libretto?

2

(2)

Zona Pellucida

4

(1)

Mathematics

4

(4)

JEANNE BRYNER

8

(13)

Coal Miner, Caples, WV, 1938

9

(3)

Siderails

12

(2)

In Praise of Hands

14

(3)

Early Farming Woman

17

(4)

CORTNEY DAVIS

21

(20)

The Nurse's Pockets

25

(2)

Heroics

27

(2)

The Good Nurse

29

(4)

Everything in Life Is Divided

33

(4)

How I'm Able to Love

37

(4)

THEODORE DEPPE

41

(15)

Admission, Children's Unit

42

(1)

For Don Corleone in Paradise

43

(4)

The Japanese Deer

47

(2)

Marisol

49

(3)

The Funeral March of Adolf Wölfi

52

(4)

SANDRA BISHOP EBNER

56

(15)

My Father's Violin

57

(1)

Size 8 Surgical Gloves

58

(2)

Daily Activity Log

60

(3)

If I Could Fly

63

(3)

The Cure

66

(1)

Autopsy No. 24722

67

(2)

Motion and Time and Driving Alone

69

(2)

AMY HADDAD

71

(10)

Dehiscence

71

(2)

Asking for Direction

73

(1)

Girding for Battle

74

(2)

Chemotherapy Lounge

76

(5)

VENETA MASSON

81

(12)

What's There in Grandma's Diary

81

(4)

The Secret Life of Nurses

85

(2)

Metastasis

87

(1)

The Silence of Dollhood

88

(2)

La Muerte

90

(3)

LIANNE ELIZABETH MERCER

93

(16)

Benedición

93

(3)

Exiles

96

(3)

Temple Dog

99

(4)

Sunrise

103

(6)

MARY JANE NEALON

109

(14)

Human-Headed Bull below Empty Space

111

(2)

Rapture

113

(3)

The Priesthood

116

(3)

Who Dies of Thirst

119

(4)

GERI ROSENZWEIG

123

(9)

Crossing the Field

123

(2)

This Bach Cantata

125

(1)

Calypso's Bar

126

(1)

Prism

127

(1)

Flaxen God

128

(4)

PAULA SERGI

132

(13)

Home Visits

133

(2)

On Switching from Nursing to English

135

(1)

Four on a Fold

136

(2)

Lake de Neveu

138

(1)

Germination

139

(6)

KELLY SIEVERS

145

(12)

Holding On

145

(3)

I Dream Gene Kelly Is My Father

148

(2)

Rochester, Minnesota, 1965

150

(1)

Biopsy

151

(1)

In the House across the Street a Boy Is Playing a Horn

152

(1)

Outside the Hotel DeVille

153

(4)

KATHLEEN WALSH SPENCER

157

(14)

Coffee for One

157

(3)

Sailor Explains Kissing the Nurse

160

(1)

At the $3 Car Wash

161

(2)

Army Nurses, Vietnam, 1966

163

(8)

CONSTANCE STUDER

171

(18)

Dear Dr. Williams, Dear Poet

171

(4)

Hawk, Winter

175

(3)

Higher Learning

178

(4)

Rose

182

(7)

ANNE WEBSTER

189

(16)

The House on Bolton Road

189

(4)

Going Steady

193

(4)

True Colors

197

(4)

The Woman My Husband Should Have Married

201

(4)

PERMISSIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

205

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The Poetry of Nursing

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