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Heavy Metal Nursing
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781597322119
Publisher: University of Tampa Press
Published: Nov 15 2024
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.
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