Breathless

Jeanne Bryner

Description

Jeanne Bryner is a registered nurse. Her poems and stories have appeared in several magazines and journals, including Annals of Internal Medicine, American Journal of Nursing, International Journal of Arts Medicine, The Sun, and in the anthology Intensive Care. She is the author of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Breathless (The Kent State University Press, 1995).

Sujets

• Poetry

Informations

• Publié par: The Kent State University Press
• Date de parution: 31 mai 1996
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781631010903
• Langue: English

Extrait

BREATHLESS
Wick Poetry Chapbook Series
Maggie Anderson, Editor
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Kat Snider Blackbird
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Robert Brown
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David Hassler
Rooms by the Sea
Mary Ann Samyn
The Secret Turning of the Earth
Anthony Libby
Against the Simple
Robert Miltner
Breathless
Jeanne Bryner
Losses of Moment
Lou Suarez
BREATHLESS
Jeanne Bryner
The Kent State University Press Kent, Ohio, & London, England
© 1995 by Jeanne Bryner
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 95-5599
ISBN 0-87338-533-0
Manufactured in the United States of America
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The Wick Poetry Chapbook series is sponsored by the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Program and the Department of English at Kent State University.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bryner, Jeanne, 1951–
Breathless / Jeanne Bryner.
     p.       cm.—(Wick poetry chapbook series; no. 7)
ISBN 0-87338-533-0 (pbk.: alk paper) ∞
I. Title. II. Series.
PS 3552. R 995 B 74    1995 811'.54—dc20 95-5599 CIP
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data are available .
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Maples
Standing There
Siderails
For Maude Callen: Nurse Midwife, Pineville, NC 1951
August Delivery
Blue Lace Socks
Birch Canoe
Taste of Tin
Freedom Counter
Finding the Pulse
Letter from Ward Three
Butterfly
Warblers
Violets
Breathless
I’m Trying to Be Accurate
This Red Oozing
Where I Empty My Pockets
Notes
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publications in which these poems first appeared: “August Delivery,” Journal of Holistic Nursing ; “Finding the Pulse,” “Siderails” and “Standing There,” Journal of Holistic Nursing ; “Birch Canoe,” Journal of Emergency Nursing ; “Where I Empty My Pockets,” Journal of Emergency Nursing ; “Butterfly,” Poetry East ; “Freedom Counter,” “I’m Trying to Be Accurate,” and “Letter from Ward Three,” Prairie Schooner ; “This Red Oozing,” Texas Journal of Women and the Law ; “Violets,” Journal of Emergency Medicine ; “Warblers,” Geriatric Nursing ; “Blue Lace Socks,” Between the Heartbeats: An Anthology of Poetry, Fiction, and Memoir by Registered Nurses , ed. Cortney Davis and Judy Schaefer (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995).
I would like to express my appreciation to Robert and Walter Wick for providing Kent State University with the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Scholarship program, which stimulated my art, and to Mr.