| #3548921 in Books | 2012-07-01 | 2012-07-06 | Original language:English | 9.00 x.30 x6.00l,.35 | File type: PDF | 96 pages||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| An Essential Read...Beautifully Clear|By ReviewerMidwest LS|As the publisher of this book, Bottom Dog Press is proud to add it to our Working Lives Series. It contains the heart of our mission of bringing fine writing off the page and into the lives of others. Jeanne Bryner is a poet and nurse, and here she shares both in human poems of compassion and survival. Here's what||The poems in Jeanne Bryner’s SMOKE reveal her to be an angel of mercy not only in her work with patients but also in her ability to create poems that comfort and guide us as we face universal fears: sickness, personal and societal abuse, family tragedy,
Welcome to real-deal, no-happy-meals-sold-here poetry. With her nurse’s hand and poet’s eye, Jeanne Bryner cuts into hidden human geographies―bodies "unhinged" like weathered barn doors, an open chest’s "ribbed canyon," and bone cells like "drunken thugs in a cave." She claims the body as working class without a union to negotiate. This collection is a stunning achievement, a howl against going gently into any good night, a life claim that hits, an...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Smoke: Poems (Working Lives) | Jeanne Bryner. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
