The hands of strangers : poems from the nursing home
Janice N. Harrington (Author)
An astonishing moving second book of poetry, a celebration of both sides of a relationship that has rarely if ever been do deeply examined. She achieves a delicate balance between the fragile lives of nursing home residents and the difficult tasks performed by the hardworking strangers who care for them. -- back cover
Print Book, English, 2011
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BOA Editions, Rochester, NY, 2011
American poets continuum series, v. 130, no. 130
poetry
79 pages ; 23 cm.
9781934414545, 1934414549
697808320
I.In Their Care
Bedchecks
Balance
Molly
White Slips
The Night-Shift Rose
Old Photos
Precision
Pieta
Wards of Sleep
II.Wards
Rot
Legs
Two
Starch
Visits
Reality Orientation Therapy
Walking Roba
May Engles
The Way It Ends
III.Rough Hands
Protest
Mending Wall
Friction's Flowers
Pinch
Wind
Gently
Feet
Armistice
IV.All Things Labor
Pressure Wounds
Catheter
Impaction
Ode to the Bedpan
Chart
Divider
Epilogue
Neck