Blood & Bone

by Belli, Angela; Coulehan, Jack

• ISBN13: 9780877456384
• ISBN10: 0877456380
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr

Summary

Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians explores the profound connections between medicine and poetry through the eyes of contemporary physician-poets. These one hundred poems record instances of pain and recovery, joy and grief, humor and irony within the restricted society of caregivers and their patients.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
The Doctor	p. 5
Lunch and Afterwards	p. 6
Millie's Date	p. 7
The Stethoscope	p. 8
Pathology of Colours	p. 9
X-Ray	p. 10
Her Final Show	p. 11
S. W.	p. 12
Towards Curing AIDS	p. 13
Labour and Delivery	p. 14
MRI	p. 16
The Evidence on Film	p. 18
D-Day, 1994	p. 19
The Azalea Poem	p. 20
I'm Gonna Slap Those Doctors	p. 21
The Man with a Hole in His Face	p. 22
Carmelita	p. 23
Stroke	p. 24
The Chief of Medicine	p. 25
Candor	p. 27
The Clinic	p. 28
Two Suffering Men	p. 29
Tap	p. 31
Anorexia	p. 32
Lullaby	p. 33
First Payment	p. 34
abused child	p. 36
a small girl brings an injured bird into the surgery	p. 37
a house call to a man with parkinson's disease	p. 39
Coincidentally	p. 40
Electroconvulsive Therapy	p. 41
MRI of a Poet's Brain	p. 43
Time Heals All Wounds - But One	p. 44
Youth	p. 45
Gurney Tears	p. 46
He Makes a House Call	p. 48
Confabulation	p. 50
Luck	p. 51
I Have Two Sons and the One I Love Best Is Robert	p. 52
Chest X-Ray	p. 53
Therapy	p. 54
Walking the Dog	p. 55
A Letter to William Carlos Williams	p. 56
Night Call	p. 57
El Curandero	p. 61
'Round Killar	p. 63
Who Looks after Your Kids?	p. 64
Leaving Mother, 1954	p. 65
Communal Living	p. 66
On the Anniversary of My Father's Death	p. 67
Regret	p. 68
Los Olivos	p. 69
potter	p. 70
Monday Morning	p. 72
The Bass	p. 74
Rosemary	p. 76
Talking to the Family	p. 79
What I Heard on the Radio Today	p. 80
Before the Brain Surgery	p. 82
The Portugal Laurel	p. 83
Transfiguration	p. 84
Carnal Knowledge	p. 88
In the Theatre	p. 91
The Origin of Music	p. 93
What the Body Told	p. 94
On Dutch's Death	p. 95
Anatomy Lesson	p. 97
The Rule of Thirds	p. 98
Painting the Nude	p. 99
The Wound Man	p. 100
Autopsy	p. 101
Line Drive	p. 103
Venipuncture	p. 104
Motorcycle Ward	p. 105
Bio 7	p. 107
Gaudeamus Igitur: A Valediction	p. 109
The Log of Pi	p. 113
Neuroanatomy Summer	p. 114
Scarlet Crown	p. 115
Broken Silence	p. 120
A Question of Vitamins	p. 122
Christmas, Belfast	p. 124
The Goddam Street	p. 126
New Jersey Boys	p. 127
The Dynamizer and the Oscilloclast	p. 129
Lovesickness: A Medieval Text	p. 131
Vermont Has a High Suicide Rate	p. 132
The Survivor	p. 134
The Pain	p. 135
Number Our Days	p. 136
Prediction	p. 138
Voyeur	p. 139
Brandy Station, Virginia	p. 141
Madame Butterfly	p. 142
The Truck	p. 144
Getting to Sleep in New Jersey	p. 146
Will Campbell Displays His Craniotribe	p. 147
Insulin Receptor	p. 148
Damien	p. 149
The Miracle	p. 151
Permissions	p. 153
Contributors	p. 157
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