Scott Frey

Broschiertes Buch

Heavy Metal Nursing

Beschreibung

Heavy Metal Nursing tells a story of love which, like all love stories, is a story of loss. It is not a sentimental love but a "heavy-metal" one, kneeling arm-to-arm beside parents caring for their daughter born with a severe brain injury who needs intensive care her entire life and dies at three years old. These poems hum the music of oxygen machines and chest compressions and respond to suffering with "half howl, half prayer." These are poems of vulnerability and pain, but also of parenting, caregiving, marriage, medicine, humor, tenderness, affection. Over and over, they ask what it means to be "learning / to make life out of this slow dying."

Autor

Scott Frey grew up in Western Pennsylvania and teaches English at Pine Meadow Academy. He learned to teach and found his first writing community at The Landmark School in Prides Crossing, MA. He then found a wonderful writers' community during many years teaching at The Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, CT. He also served as a parent advisor for the Pediatric Advanced Care Team at Children's Hospital, Boston. He and his wife, Meryl, run a small non-profit charity, The Charlotte Frey Foundation, in memory of their daughter. The foundation's mission is to help children with multiple handicaps and life-threatening illnesses and their families improve their quality of life. Among other places, his work has been published or is forthcoming in Passages North, december magazine, One, Adroit, Bellevue Literary Review, New York Quarterly, and The Missouri Review, where he was awarded the Perkoff Prize for poetry. His prose chapbook, Night Nurses, was a winner in the Black River Chapbook Competition and will be published by Black Lawrence Press in the spring of 2025. He and his family live in Granby, CT.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Tampa Press
• Seitenzahl: 102
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 161g
• ISBN-13: 9781597322102
• ISBN-10: 1597322105
• Artikelnr.: 72165813