Clinician's Guide to the Soul--Poems on Nursing, Medicine, Illness and Life
Veneta Masson is a nurse, poet and essayist living in Washington, D.C.   In practice for thirty-five years, twenty of them in primary health care, Masson was a founder, director and family nurse practitioner in a small mom-and-pop clinic providing office and home care to the mostly-poor residents of an inner-city neighborhood.  Two of her previous books, Rehab at the Florida Avenue Grill (poems) and Ninth Street Notebook--Voice of a Nurse in the City (essays), came out of that experience.   Though no longer in practice, she continues to explore healing art and contribute to her profession through writing and editing.