Accidental ? Physician Poet

Accidental ? Physician Poet

Author: Robert G. Duchouquette

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2009-03-21

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 1440119597

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Robert Duchouquette's love of poetry grew from his son's simple request for help writing a haiku for high school English. He found the Muse contagious and over the next twenty years, he continued to practice medicine and compose poetry. This anthology features one hundred poems, representing years of exploring this lyrical art form. He writes in numerous poetic genres; from sonnets to metrical rhymed humor and from strictly structured forms to free verse and narrative poetry, his favorite styles for the past ten years. There are surprising sprinkles of parody and heaping doses of humor within his range of imagery. Inside, you'll find poems grouped according to subject matter and style. The first chapter is dedicated to medical poems, which are based on experiences from medical school and private practice. Other poems are grouped into humorous styles and the author's original expertise, oriental forms. There are chapters with poems scrutinizing historical events and showcasing styles cultivated over the past two decades. As they have for physician/poet "Dr. D," this collection is certain to become an enjoyable diversion from the ordinary; and, as one of his poems states, it is simply for: "exalting in the elegance of a well-turned phrase."


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Download or read book Accidental ? Physician Poet written by Robert G. Duchouquette and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-03-21 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Duchouquette's love of poetry grew from his son's simple request for help writing a haiku for high school English. He found the Muse contagious and over the next twenty years, he continued to practice medicine and compose poetry. This anthology features one hundred poems, representing years of exploring this lyrical art form. He writes in numerous poetic genres; from sonnets to metrical rhymed humor and from strictly structured forms to free verse and narrative poetry, his favorite styles for the past ten years. There are surprising sprinkles of parody and heaping doses of humor within his range of imagery. Inside, you'll find poems grouped according to subject matter and style. The first chapter is dedicated to medical poems, which are based on experiences from medical school and private practice. Other poems are grouped into humorous styles and the author's original expertise, oriental forms. There are chapters with poems scrutinizing historical events and showcasing styles cultivated over the past two decades. As they have for physician/poet "Dr. D," this collection is certain to become an enjoyable diversion from the ordinary; and, as one of his poems states, it is simply for: "exalting in the elegance of a well-turned phrase."


Sleep Talker

Sleep Talker

Author: Audrey Shafer

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2001-05-14

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 1462843700

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Audrey Shafer observes the world with a quiet intensity, with a reverence for the everydayness of her children’s toys, the earth outside her window, and the sacred trust of her sleeping patients. Her poems reflect the seamless back and forth of her woman’s life, at one moment breathing for her patients, in the next choosing socks for her daughter to wear. “Barking orders / I stick the tube in / silently curse, pray, sell my soul for the beat of a hidden heart,” this doctor/mother reminds us all of the fluidity of identity. Stunning, truly. –Delese Wear, Ph.D., Editor, Journal of Medical Humanities Audrey Shafer’s poems demonstrate a unique blend of tenderness and steadiness that makes hers a recognizable and welcome voice among contemporary physician-poets. Her images are powerful and compelling. Consider, for example, “gardenias thick as lust” and the “gauze-choked winter sun.” Her line is graceful, yet disciplined; her language imaginative, even transcendent, yet always grounded in “flesh, arm, artery, earlobe” and always aware of “the scrape of the key in the lock.” Sleep Talker reveals that the most ordinary moment in life can also be “the glory and the answer.” –Jack Coulehan, M.D., Editor, Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians Audrey Shafer has, in abundant measure, all the requirements for the making of fine poems–a well-tuned eye, ear, and heart. A palpable sense of discovery is everywhere in her poetry, unique, contemplative, joyful, and wise. –John Stone, M.D., poet and essayist, Where Water Begins: New Poems and Prose In her first book of poems, anesthesiologist Audrey Shafer, M.D., boldly weaves her professional and personal worlds. These poems, some previously published in journals and anthologies, provide a glimpse of the daily life, including the worries, foibles and glories, of a working mother. The book, although divided into three sections, contains many poems that interconnect the three themes (home, work, and journeys) as a reflection of the impossibility of disconnecting facets of a lived life. The first section, “that I call home”, invokes the poet’s childhood in Philadelphia, the death of her father, love and succor from family and friends, and the fierce and tender joys of motherhood. The love poem, “Home”, written for her husband, is characteristic Shafer: the influence of medical and anatomical knowledge on her experience of the fragilities of love and life. Many poems, however, are far from solemn: “Socks” intertwines humor and maternal love and “Riff” is a self-deprecating romp into drumming taken up in midlife. The second section, “not quite sleep”, delves into the world of the doctor, and in particular, the anesthesiologist. This section may be of greatest interest to those in the fields of medical humanities and pedagogy. In poems such as “Center Stage” and “Anesthesia”, the poet reflects on the nature of anesthesia and the profound gift of trust that her patients offer her. The widely anthologized poem, “Monday Morning”, describes the intimate early morning hours of a doctor / mother.


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Download or read book Sleep Talker written by Audrey Shafer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-05-14 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audrey Shafer observes the world with a quiet intensity, with a reverence for the everydayness of her children’s toys, the earth outside her window, and the sacred trust of her sleeping patients. Her poems reflect the seamless back and forth of her woman’s life, at one moment breathing for her patients, in the next choosing socks for her daughter to wear. “Barking orders / I stick the tube in / silently curse, pray, sell my soul for the beat of a hidden heart,” this doctor/mother reminds us all of the fluidity of identity. Stunning, truly. –Delese Wear, Ph.D., Editor, Journal of Medical Humanities Audrey Shafer’s poems demonstrate a unique blend of tenderness and steadiness that makes hers a recognizable and welcome voice among contemporary physician-poets. Her images are powerful and compelling. Consider, for example, “gardenias thick as lust” and the “gauze-choked winter sun.” Her line is graceful, yet disciplined; her language imaginative, even transcendent, yet always grounded in “flesh, arm, artery, earlobe” and always aware of “the scrape of the key in the lock.” Sleep Talker reveals that the most ordinary moment in life can also be “the glory and the answer.” –Jack Coulehan, M.D., Editor, Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians Audrey Shafer has, in abundant measure, all the requirements for the making of fine poems–a well-tuned eye, ear, and heart. A palpable sense of discovery is everywhere in her poetry, unique, contemplative, joyful, and wise. –John Stone, M.D., poet and essayist, Where Water Begins: New Poems and Prose In her first book of poems, anesthesiologist Audrey Shafer, M.D., boldly weaves her professional and personal worlds. These poems, some previously published in journals and anthologies, provide a glimpse of the daily life, including the worries, foibles and glories, of a working mother. The book, although divided into three sections, contains many poems that interconnect the three themes (home, work, and journeys) as a reflection of the impossibility of disconnecting facets of a lived life. The first section, “that I call home”, invokes the poet’s childhood in Philadelphia, the death of her father, love and succor from family and friends, and the fierce and tender joys of motherhood. The love poem, “Home”, written for her husband, is characteristic Shafer: the influence of medical and anatomical knowledge on her experience of the fragilities of love and life. Many poems, however, are far from solemn: “Socks” intertwines humor and maternal love and “Riff” is a self-deprecating romp into drumming taken up in midlife. The second section, “not quite sleep”, delves into the world of the doctor, and in particular, the anesthesiologist. This section may be of greatest interest to those in the fields of medical humanities and pedagogy. In poems such as “Center Stage” and “Anesthesia”, the poet reflects on the nature of anesthesia and the profound gift of trust that her patients offer her. The widely anthologized poem, “Monday Morning”, describes the intimate early morning hours of a doctor / mother.


Poet Physicians

Poet Physicians

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1954

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13:

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Primary Care

Primary Care

Author: Angela Belli

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13:

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Medicine has always been an emotionally and spiritually challenging profession. Today, confronted with the rapid progress of technology, the shifting sands of health care economics, and glaring disparities in health care and human rights, physicians experience challenges that grow constantly more demanding. As a result, many doctors attempt to build into their lives opportunities for reflection and self-awareness. It is in this context that medical poetry has blossomed. Primary Care, the second anthology of physician poems edited by Angela Belli and Jack Coulehan, proves that the poetry movement in medicine continues to flourish. Fifty-two contemporary physician poets contribute one hundred poems that explore medical practice, interpersonal relationships, and the modern world. Their poems record instances of pain and suffering, joy and grief, humor and irony. Their subjects range from caregivers, patients, trainees, and teachers to poverty, injustice, and war throughout the world. In some cases we find the poets in their professional milieu as they reveal interactions with patients and colleagues. Other poems address private worlds and family relationships. In others the poets turn outward and direct their attention to social and global concerns. Characterized by an immense and kind-hearted sympathy for and empathy with those who are suffering, the poets recognize that everyone’s life is diminished by the trauma of illness and death.


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Download or read book Primary Care written by Angela Belli and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine has always been an emotionally and spiritually challenging profession. Today, confronted with the rapid progress of technology, the shifting sands of health care economics, and glaring disparities in health care and human rights, physicians experience challenges that grow constantly more demanding. As a result, many doctors attempt to build into their lives opportunities for reflection and self-awareness. It is in this context that medical poetry has blossomed. Primary Care, the second anthology of physician poems edited by Angela Belli and Jack Coulehan, proves that the poetry movement in medicine continues to flourish. Fifty-two contemporary physician poets contribute one hundred poems that explore medical practice, interpersonal relationships, and the modern world. Their poems record instances of pain and suffering, joy and grief, humor and irony. Their subjects range from caregivers, patients, trainees, and teachers to poverty, injustice, and war throughout the world. In some cases we find the poets in their professional milieu as they reveal interactions with patients and colleagues. Other poems address private worlds and family relationships. In others the poets turn outward and direct their attention to social and global concerns. Characterized by an immense and kind-hearted sympathy for and empathy with those who are suffering, the poets recognize that everyone’s life is diminished by the trauma of illness and death.


The Healing Art

The Healing Art

Author: Rafael Campo

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780393057270

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"In this book Rafael Campo restores the link between poetry and healing, in lyrical prose that also offers "pharmaceutical" samples of work by a diverse group of poets such as Mark Doty, Marilyn Hacker, Miroslav Holub, Audre Lorde, Lucia Perillo, and William Carlos Williams. He leads us through the stages of illness and recuperation, from first inklings of mortality, through symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment, and finally recovery or - and here medicine recoils but poetry perseveres - death, and even immortality."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved


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Download or read book The Healing Art written by Rafael Campo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book Rafael Campo restores the link between poetry and healing, in lyrical prose that also offers "pharmaceutical" samples of work by a diverse group of poets such as Mark Doty, Marilyn Hacker, Miroslav Holub, Audre Lorde, Lucia Perillo, and William Carlos Williams. He leads us through the stages of illness and recuperation, from first inklings of mortality, through symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment, and finally recovery or - and here medicine recoils but poetry perseveres - death, and even immortality."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved


The Doctor Stories

The Doctor Stories

Author: William Carlos Williams

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780811209267

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Not only for students and doctors, this volume contains Williams's thirteen doctor stories, several of his most famous poems on medical matters, and The Practice from The Autobiography.


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Download or read book The Doctor Stories written by William Carlos Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only for students and doctors, this volume contains Williams's thirteen doctor stories, several of his most famous poems on medical matters, and The Practice from The Autobiography.


The Doctor's Window

The Doctor's Window

Author: Ina Russelle Warren

Publisher:

Published: 1897

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13:

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Poet Physicians

Poet Physicians

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1945

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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Arzt / Gedichte.


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Download or read book Poet Physicians written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arzt / Gedichte.


Poetry in Medicine

Poetry in Medicine

Author: Michael Salcman

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780892554492

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Infused with hope, heartbreak, and humor, this book gathers our greatest poets from antiquity to the present, prescribing new perspectives on doctors and patients, remedies and procedures, illness and recovery. A literary elixir, Poetry in Medicine displays the genre's capacity to heal us.


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Download or read book Poetry in Medicine written by Michael Salcman and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infused with hope, heartbreak, and humor, this book gathers our greatest poets from antiquity to the present, prescribing new perspectives on doctors and patients, remedies and procedures, illness and recovery. A literary elixir, Poetry in Medicine displays the genre's capacity to heal us.


Poet Physicians

Poet Physicians

Author: Mary Lou McDonough

Publisher:

Published: 1946

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780398043599

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Download or read book Poet Physicians written by Mary Lou McDonough and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: