Smoke: Poems (Working Lives) - Softcover

Bryner, Jeanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933964596 ISBN 13: 9781933964591

Verlag: Bottom Dog Pr, 2012

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The poems in Jeanne Bryner's SMOKE reveal her to be an angel of mercy not only in her work with patients but also in her ability to create poems that comfort and guide us as we face universal fears: sickness, personal and societal abuse, family tragedy, physical pain and emotional longing. Bryner intertwines striking images and perfect metaphors in poems that use nursing as a lens through which to view the world of healthcare as well as the lives of families, communities, and the art of writing. Because she has witnessed moments only a nurse might, she is able to plunge through the poem's surface event to reach the ineffable. Her poems dig deep, reaching what Emily Dickinson called "the zero at the bone." -- Cortney Davis, author of The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing

Biografía del autor:

Jeanne Bryner was born in Appalachia and grew up in Newton Falls,

Ohio. She is a practicing registered nurse and a graduate of Trumbull

Memorial Hospital's School of Nursing and Kent State University's

Honors College. Her books include Breathless, Blind Horse: Poems,

Eclipse: Stories, Tenderly Lift Me: Nurses Honored, Celebrated and

Remembered, The Wedding of Miss Meredith Mouse and No Matter How

Many Windows, the story of women in her family which won the 2011

Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing from the Working Class Studies

Association. Her poetry has been adapted for the stage and performed

in Ohio, New York, Texas, Kentucky, West Virginia, California and

Edinburgh, Scotland. Her new play, Foxglove Canyon, was first

performed in Akron for Summa Healthcare's Humanities' conference

under the direction of Russell Zampino. With the support of Hiram

College's Center for Literature, Medicine and Biomedical Humanities,

her nursing poetry has been adapted for the stage and performed by

Verb Ballets, Cleveland, Ohio. As a community affiliate of Youngstown

State University's Center for Working Class Studies, she frequently

treats working-class issues. She teaches writing workshops in schools,

universities, community centers, cancer support groups and assisted living

facilities. She has received writing fellowships from Bucknell University,

the Ohio Arts Council (1997, 2007), and Vermont Studio Center.

She lives with her husband in Newton Falls, Ohio.

Judy Waid, who does the cover art here, is retired after forty years of nursing. A graduate of Trumbull Memorial Hospital's School of Nursing, wife and mother, she has always pursued her love of art. She studied at Kent State University and the

Cleveland Institute of Art and has received several art awards. The Ohio

Nurses Association commissioned her to design medallions based on

nursing personalities and historical moments in nursing now in museums,

universities, private collections, and in the textbook Nursing, The Finest

Art. Her portraits of prominent women in the Warren-Youngstown area are well known and on display at the Warren Trumbull County Public Library and the Harriet Upton House. A member of the Trumbull Art Gallery and its portrait group, she lives with her husband in Howland, Ohio.

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• Verlag: Bottom Dog Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1933964596
• ISBN 13: 9781933964591
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 95
• Herausgeber: Smith Larry