Author: Rafael Campo
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377136
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
In his sixth collection of poetry, the celebrated poet-physician Rafael Campo examines the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing. As masterfully crafted as they are viscerally powerful, these poems propose voice itself as a kind of therapeutic medium. For all that most ails us, Alternative Medicine offers the balm of song and the salve of the imagination: from the wounds of our stubborn differences of identity, to the pain of alienation in a world of unfeeling technologies, to the shame of the persistent injustices in our society, Campo's poetry displays a deep understanding of hurt as the possibility for healing. Demonstrating an abiding faith in our survival, this stunning, heartfelt book ultimately embraces the great diversity of our ways of knowing and dreaming, of needing and loving, and of living and dying.
Alternative Medicine
Author: Rafael Campo
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377136
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
In his sixth collection of poetry, the celebrated poet-physician Rafael Campo examines the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing. As masterfully crafted as they are viscerally powerful, these poems propose voice itself as a kind of therapeutic medium. For all that most ails us, Alternative Medicine offers the balm of song and the salve of the imagination: from the wounds of our stubborn differences of identity, to the pain of alienation in a world of unfeeling technologies, to the shame of the persistent injustices in our society, Campo's poetry displays a deep understanding of hurt as the possibility for healing. Demonstrating an abiding faith in our survival, this stunning, heartfelt book ultimately embraces the great diversity of our ways of knowing and dreaming, of needing and loving, and of living and dying.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377136
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
In his sixth collection of poetry, the celebrated poet-physician Rafael Campo examines the primal relationship between language, empathy, and healing. As masterfully crafted as they are viscerally powerful, these poems propose voice itself as a kind of therapeutic medium. For all that most ails us, Alternative Medicine offers the balm of song and the salve of the imagination: from the wounds of our stubborn differences of identity, to the pain of alienation in a world of unfeeling technologies, to the shame of the persistent injustices in our society, Campo's poetry displays a deep understanding of hurt as the possibility for healing. Demonstrating an abiding faith in our survival, this stunning, heartfelt book ultimately embraces the great diversity of our ways of knowing and dreaming, of needing and loving, and of living and dying.
Poetry in Medicine
Author: Michael Salcman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892554492
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892554492
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
The Doctor Stories
Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811209267
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
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.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811209267
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
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.
Blood & Bone
Author: Angela Belli
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780877456384
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
I admire this brave and accessible anthology. The drama is immediate. The effects are visceral. There are stories and facts in this collection that will knock you off your pins. Worthy of the classroom, but worthy too of a private chair by a window. It has a strength that can't be faked. --Marvin Bell.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780877456384
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
I admire this brave and accessible anthology. The drama is immediate. The effects are visceral. There are stories and facts in this collection that will knock you off your pins. Worthy of the classroom, but worthy too of a private chair by a window. It has a strength that can't be faked. --Marvin Bell.
The Poet-Physician
Author: Donald C. Goellnicht
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822977036
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
For six years of his brief like, Keats studied medicine, first as an apprentice in Edmonton and then as a medical student at Guy's Hospital in London. His biographers have generally glossed over this period of his life, and critics have ignored it and denied the influence of medical training on his poetry and thought. In this challenging reappraisal, Goellnicht argues that Keats' writings reveal a distinct influence of science and medicine. Goellnicht researches Keats' course work and texts to reconstruct the milieu of the early nineteenth-century medical student. He then explores the scientific resonances in Keats'' individual works, and convincingly shows the influence of his early medical training.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822977036
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
For six years of his brief like, Keats studied medicine, first as an apprentice in Edmonton and then as a medical student at Guy's Hospital in London. His biographers have generally glossed over this period of his life, and critics have ignored it and denied the influence of medical training on his poetry and thought. In this challenging reappraisal, Goellnicht argues that Keats' writings reveal a distinct influence of science and medicine. Goellnicht researches Keats' course work and texts to reconstruct the milieu of the early nineteenth-century medical student. He then explores the scientific resonances in Keats'' individual works, and convincingly shows the influence of his early medical training.
The Healing Art
Author: Rafael Campo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393057270
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"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
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393057270
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"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
John Keats and the Medical Imagination
Author: Nicholas Roe
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319638114
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17. The Physical Society at Guy's and the demands of a medical career are explored, as are the lyrical spheres of botany, melancholia, and Keats's strange oxymoronic poetics of suspended animation. Here too are links between surveillance of patients at Bedlam and of inner city streets that were walked by the poet of 'To Autumn'. The book concludes with a survey of multiple romantic pathologies of that most Keatsian of diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319638114
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17. The Physical Society at Guy's and the demands of a medical career are explored, as are the lyrical spheres of botany, melancholia, and Keats's strange oxymoronic poetics of suspended animation. Here too are links between surveillance of patients at Bedlam and of inner city streets that were walked by the poet of 'To Autumn'. The book concludes with a survey of multiple romantic pathologies of that most Keatsian of diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis.
Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler
Author: Philip W. Leon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In 1919, Sir William Osler, MD, born in Ontario, was the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University and the most famous medical doctor in the English-speaking world. In that year he wrote his Reminiscences about his personal and professional relationship 30 years earlier with the American poet Walt Whitman. Dr. Osler died before his manuscript could be published. Now, thanks to the exclusive permission granted by the Board of Curators of the Osler Library at McGill University, Philip W. Leon presents for the first time the complete text of Osler's Reminiscences, revealing the extent of the doctor's relationship with Walt Whitman.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In 1919, Sir William Osler, MD, born in Ontario, was the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University and the most famous medical doctor in the English-speaking world. In that year he wrote his Reminiscences about his personal and professional relationship 30 years earlier with the American poet Walt Whitman. Dr. Osler died before his manuscript could be published. Now, thanks to the exclusive permission granted by the Board of Curators of the Osler Library at McGill University, Philip W. Leon presents for the first time the complete text of Osler's Reminiscences, revealing the extent of the doctor's relationship with Walt Whitman.
What's Written on the Body
Author: Peter Pereira
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556592523
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Pereira's double-life as a medical doctor and word-playful poet offers an enriching perspective.
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556592523
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Pereira's double-life as a medical doctor and word-playful poet offers an enriching perspective.
Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet's Body
Author: James Robert Allard
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 0754686868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
James Allard's book restores the physical body to its proper place in Romantic studies by exploring the status of the human body during the stunning historical moment that witnessed the emergence of Romantic literature alongside the professionalization of medical practice. His central subject is the Poet-Physician, a hybrid figure in the works of the medically trained Keats, Thelwall, and Beddoes, who embodies the struggles over discrepancies and affinities between medicine and poetry.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 0754686868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
James Allard's book restores the physical body to its proper place in Romantic studies by exploring the status of the human body during the stunning historical moment that witnessed the emergence of Romantic literature alongside the professionalization of medical practice. His central subject is the Poet-Physician, a hybrid figure in the works of the medically trained Keats, Thelwall, and Beddoes, who embodies the struggles over discrepancies and affinities between medicine and poetry.