Taking the History - Softcover

David-watts

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1879205807 ISBN 13: 9781879205802

Verlag: Nightshade Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

David Watts has the eye, ear and heart of a poet and, just as importantly for this book, the poetic subject that allows him to use his considerable powers to their fullest the human body with all its frailty and strength as a metaphor for our existence. With linguistic precision for image and phrase that recalls William Carlos Williams' "Plum blossoms on the ground / like frost flakes. And my friend lies still / in the ICU..." David Watts convinces the reader that "the body needs a washing out" and that "the heart can harm itself," leaving us with the recognition that our body is the world and the world is our body. I love these poems for presenting the horrifying fragility of our existence and the incredible resilience and strength with which we meet our individual fates." Len Roberts, Poet

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David Watts lives in Mill Valley, California, with his wife, Joan Baranow, also a poet, and their excellent son, Duston. Dr. Watts teaches at the University of California San Francisco medical school and at the Fromm Institute of USF. His previous Books include "Spring's Boy and Slow Walking at Jenner-by-the-Sea." He is a musician and media host, and an occasional commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."

Aus dem Klappentext

taking the history

we speak across language
and still there is a story

tell it in the gestures
the body makes suffering

and a pattern will emerge
every wisdom a silhouette

against the partition between us

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Staring the IV: Anesthesia

I am good at this.
The arm bends out, the vein
lies stretched and succulent,
transparent under the sheen
of alcohol. My fingers slide
the slippery skin, tracing
engorgement.

He says he's fine
but I se the cinch
of his muscles. So I tell him
I'm the best
and he eases,
slightly.

The needle glides
under the skin, beveled tip
in its slip along the vein
where I rest it
and let him relax. It waits
like a mosquito attached
by its sucker

David Watts, M.D.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Nightshade Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1879205807
• ISBN 13: 9781879205802
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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