A History of Nursing
Anne Webster's powerful collection resonates with the voice of one who has stood witness to suffering. Like lamps held aloft in the darkness, these startling poems illuminate hidden truths about childhood, love, loss and the caring inherent to human relationships. --Sayantani DasGupta, MD MPH, Author of <i"Her Own Medicine: A Woman's Journey from Student to Doctor"/i><br /><br />These poems are wise in the ways of this old world, this gorgeous and mysterious sad old world. Anne Webster brings us along with her on nurse's rounds where students "learn how to poke needles / in oranges, in roommates." and where a coronary bypass patient summons because "a wayward finger of bypass artery/ waves free." --Beth Ann Fennelly , Author of <iUnmentionables/i>These poems are wise in the ways of this old world, this gorgeous and mysterious sad old world. Anne Webster brings us along with her on nurse's rounds where students "learn how to poke needles / in oranges, in roommates." and where a coronary bypass patient summons because "a wayward finger of bypass artery/ waves free." --Beth Ann Fennelly , Author of <iUnmentionables/i>--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.