Amy Haddad

An Otherwise Healthy Woman

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Produktbeschreibung

These poems delve into the complexity of modern health care, illness, and healing, teaching us what should be the human response to suffering: take a moment to stop and respond to the longing for compassion in each of us.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Backwaters Press
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 141g
• ISBN-13: 9781496227850
• ISBN-10: 1496227859
• Artikelnr.: 62162242

Autorenporträt

Amy Haddad is professor emerita in the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions at Creighton University. She is the author of the chapbook The Geography of Kitchens and has published poetry in a number of journals, including Aji Magazine, Persimmon Tree, and DASH Literary Journal. For more information about the author, visit amyhaddadpoetry.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
1. In the Clutch of a Rubber Band
Making Camp
Cafeteria—2013
Admissions
Flexion/Extension
The Day after Memorial Day
At Rehab
Home Assessment
Flipping Garlic Toast
From the Motel Window
Whole-Berry Cranberry Sauce
The Promises Women Make to Each Other
My Role as the Wife
The Fit of Suffering
2. What We Did on the Floor
Overture
A Guide to the Physical Exam
Blame Placing
Dehiscence
Gallows Humor
Second-Degree Block
The White Stucco House
Families Like This
The Course of Leukemia
Day’s End at the Farmer’s Market in Montparnasse
Ten Items or Less
3. Cut along the Lines
Stereotactic Biopsy
Nuclear Bone Scan
An Otherwise Healthy Woman
Infidelity
Chemotherapy Lounge
Post-Op
Cat Scan
Chemotherapy Side Effects
French Weaving for Damages
Before- and After-Breasts
Port-a-Cath
Dark Rides
High-Wire Act
New to the Joint
Ode to a Freckle above My Left Breast
Oarsmen at Chatou
Cut along the Lines
Jug Shots
Bottom of the Cup
The Commercial Version of Metastatic Breast Cancer
Acknowledgments