Author | : Marilyn Chandler McEntyre |
File Size | : 44,6 Mb |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 29 March 2024 |
ISBN | : 0983463972 |
Pages | : 157 pages |
Patient Poets by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Book PDF Summary
"'Patient poets: Illness from inside out' invites readers to consider what caregivers and medical professionals may learn from poetry by patients. It offers reflections on poetry as a particularly apt vehicle for articulating the often isolating experiences of pain, fatigue, changed life rhythms, altered self-understanding, embarrassment, resistance, and acceptance. The chapters discuss poems that represent a particular dimension of the experience of illness or disability -- foreboding, isolation, fear, shame, wry humor, acceptance, deepening self-knowledge." -- Back cover.