| Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses Revised Edition Contributor(s): Davis, Cortney (Editor), Schaefer, Judy (Editor), Trautmann Banks, Joanne (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0877455171 ISBN-13: 9780877455172 Publisher: University of Iowa Press OUR PRICE: $21.38 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1995 Annotation: What nurses know about care giving is different from what doctors and families know. The nurses in this collection talk about inpatients, outpatients, and home patients; these patients' attendants are young and old, female and, increasingly, male. Some of the nurses are dispassionately efficient; others wickedly admit to the excitement of voyeurism; all have unusual access to the depths and shallows of human emotion. By unsentimentally translating our suffering into prose and poetry, the nurses in Between the Heartbeats performs another enduring act of loving care. The forty-nine registered nurses in this brave, graceful, first-ever anthology represent thousands more. Their words expand the practice of nursing and the practice of language. By beating witness to the intimate details of nursing, from the mundane to the beautiful to the tragic, they reveal the epiphanies of life and death. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Dewey: 810.809 |
| LCCN: 95-30297 |
| Series: Cambridge Language Education |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.49" W x 9.2" (0.68 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Davis, Cortney: - CORTNEY DAVIS is a nurse practitioner and the author of Details of Flesh and Leopold's Maneuvers, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Her honors include an NEA Poetry Fellowship; three Connecticut Commission on the Arts poetry grants; an Independent Publisher's Silver Medal; a Living Now Body Award; the Connecticut Center for the Book Award in Non-Fiction; an Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal in Body, Mind & Spirit; and four Book of the Year awards from the American Journal of Nursing. |