Price: $14.95
Format: paperback
ISBN: 978-1-933483-17-7
Pages: 85
Year Published: 2008
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About the Book
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The poems in A History of Nursing combine the professional life of a woman in the healing arts with the other aspects of her life. Just as she can never stop being the child of her parents, an adult woman, or a mother, a life in nursing colors everything she does and feels. When the nurse becomes a critically ill patient, all of those elements fuse, making her understand the impact she, as a nurse, has had on others.
Anne Webster was nominated for a National Book Award in Poetry in 2009 as well as a 45th Georgia Author of the Year Nominee. Anne speaks across the Southeast at writing conferences and leads poetry workshops. This book is another extraordinary poetry collection from Kennesaw State University Press.
What People are Saying about A History of Nursing
These poems are wise in the ways of this sad old world, this gorgeous and mysterious sad old world. Anne Webster brings us along with her on nurses' rounds where students "learn how to poke needles in oranges and in roommates," and where a coronary bypass patient summons a wayward finger. She also brings us to childhood houses, games of Spin the Bottle, and a Germany where the speaker "spits consonants like tacks." Capable, confident, observant, and witty, Webster is an excellent guide. How lucky we are to be able to trail her on her rounds.~Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Unmentionables, Tender Hooks, and Great with Child: Letters to a Young MotherThese are gutsy life-experience poems from a nurse-poet who knows "the forces that bend people like trees under a wet spring snow." Read these poems again and again to get to the truth--the whole truth of how her life was and how her life remains. Here, in strong poems, is a complex life fully exposed.
~Judy Schaefer, RNC, MA, author of Harvesting the Dew, editor of The Poetry of Nursing: Poems and Commentaries
of Leading Nurse-Poets (Kent State University, 2006); co-editor, Between the Heartbeats and Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses
Anne Webster, in poems both raw and redeeming, lets us walks beside her as she enters the many worlds she inhabits as nurse, daughter, wife, mother, traveler and, perhaps most poignantly, as patient. This poet has a keen eye and a special gift: the ability to interweave tragedy with a cheeky determination to survive, and empathy with humor. These poems, with their delightfully surprising and gritty images, are the observations of a true nurse--one who has been there, who has seen and done those things, and who would, without a moment’s hesitation, rush to save us.”
~Cortney Davis, author of I Knew a Woman: Four Women Patients and Their Female Caregiver, Leopold’s Maneuvers, and Details of Flesh, and co-editor of Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses
~Sayantani DasGupta, MD MPH author of Her Own Medicine: A Woman's Journey from Student to Doctor and co-editor of Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write their Bodies
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