Bursting with Danger and Music Contributor(s): Coulehan, Jack (Author) |
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ISBN: 1935514849 ISBN-13: 9781935514848 Publisher: Plain View Press, LLC OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Medical - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2011945368 |
Physical Information: 0.22" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.36 lbs) 107 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
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With courage, conviction, and an eye for the singular, Jack Coulehan brings us to the intersection of body and soul. His poems are thoughtful, inviting, and transporting. Jack Coulehan's poems ache with understatement and quiet beauty--like the work of any true healer, through them we are touched at the very core of our beings, and thus we rediscover the redemptive power of our own empathetic engagement with one another. The plainest of mysteries abound here: a smoked ham packed in dry ice sent each Christmas by a grateful patient becomes a ghostly reminder of mortality when one year it never arrives; the five moons of Venus, confused with Jupiter's through a backyard telescope, are humbling reminders of the limitations of what we think we know. In the end, Coulehan's bemused "prescriptions" of music and magic, of the miraculous in the mundane, are all that we require for what ails us.
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