In this Book
- Taking Care of Time
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: Michigan State University Press
- Series: Wheelbarrow Books
summary
For poet and nurse practitioner Cortney Davis, the truth revealed through poetry is similar to what she has experienced in the heightened and urgent dramas that occur in health care—those suspended moments in which a dying heart might be revived or unbearable suffering relieved. We are vulnerable, her poems say, and we are dependent on one another—on the ways in which we care or fail to care for one another, in how we love or fail to love. In poems that are sensual, emotionally searing, and yet unfailingly tender, Davis shines a caregiver’s light on the most intimate details of the human body and the spirit within—how the flesh might betray, how it endures, and how ultimately it triumphs.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright, Epigraph
- pp. i-viii
- Part I.
- Nursing 101
- p. 3
- Angel of Mercy
- pp. 13-14
- Falling Temperature
- pp. 15-16
- Teaching CPR
- pp. 19-20
- Women’s Clinic
- pp. 21-22
- The Dark Marks
- p. 23
- It Was a Good Year for Dreams
- pp. 29-30
- Part II.
- Becoming the Patient
- pp. 32-38
- Part III.
- The Ant’s Reprieve
- p. 40
- The Nurse’s Pockets
- p. 41
- Diagnosis HIV
- p. 43
- Follow-Up: Women’s Clinic
- pp. 44-45
- I’m Afraid of the Brief Empty Space
- pp. 47-48
- On Call: Splenectomy
- pp. 51-52
- Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter
- pp. 53-54
- The Vocation of Illness
- pp. 55-56
- My Evidence
- pp. 60-61
- Taking Care of Time
- p. 64
- Finding What You Didn’t Expect
- pp. 65-66
- The Snake Charmer
- p. 68
- Author’s Acknowledgments
- pp. 69-71
- Series Acknowledgments
- pp. 72-73
Additional Information
ISBN
9781609175566
Related ISBN(s)
9781611862744, 9781628953237, 9781628963236
MARC Record
OCLC
1017610060
Pages
85
Launched on MUSE
2018-01-03
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018