Strong Medicine - Krauss, Beatrice J
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This moving collection debuts Beatrice J. Krauss as a poet decades in the making. Her exceptional life fills this volume through the memories of those she has loved and championed. "You are supposed to write about what you know," she says -- so patients in the HIV epidemic are here, as are her parents and children, her fellow musicians and her harp, detained immigrant children, and her own childhood companions. Krauss's poems treat enduring sadness with nature, art, friendship, and wicked humor: the strongest medicines she knows

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This moving collection debuts Beatrice J. Krauss as a poet decades in the making. Her exceptional life fills this volume through the memories of those she has loved and championed. "You are supposed to write about what you know," she says -- so patients in the HIV epidemic are here, as are her parents and children, her fellow musicians and her harp, detained immigrant children, and her own childhood companions. Krauss's poems treat enduring sadness with nature, art, friendship, and wicked humor: the strongest medicines she knows
Autorenporträt
Beatrice J. Krauss is a retired professor of public health at the City University of New York School of Public Health and Health Policy and is currently a designated campus colleague in the Psychology Department at the University of Arizona. HIV prevention was her area of specialty. She has played harp regularly at Casa de la Luz Hospice in Tucson, Arizona, as well as with symphonies and ensembles in various states. Poetry, dance, and harp give her joy. She lives in Tucson.