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    612-822-4611

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Nurses who Love English

Nurses who Love English

Coomer, Paula Marie

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1936205734
ISBN13: 9781936205738
Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
Published: Jan 11 2013
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Awards: Idaho Library Association Book Award

In Nurses Who Love English, Paula Marie Coomer chronicles the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to the emergence of war and a life wobbling under the impact of world events: the loss of livelihood, a year of unemployment, record gasoline prices and mega-inflation, and a return to hospital nursing after having been a contracted university instructor, with its accompanying strain on a 50-year-old body. In the shadows, events that should have been celebrations become emotional struggles--the empty nest, children marrying and becoming parents themselves, finding late-life love. Lyrical, emotional, and, in the words of award-winning poet Paisley Rekdal, at once carefully wrought and yet full of spontaneity . . . both tough-minded yet fragile, the poems in this collection are powerful, graceful, and reveal the conflicting perspectives of a poet of Midwest upbringing who hails from a Kentucky mountain heritage, independent-minded yet vulnerable, a woman struggling to survive a difficult time in history alone in the rural Intermountain West.

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