From the introduction:
"This book, the second in the Waiting Room Reader series, grows
from the belief of its visionary originators, Joan Cusack Handler,
director of CavanKerry Press, and Sandra O. Gold, president of the
Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine, that one good
thing to be able to pay attention to in waiting rooms is poetry.
This is a belief that I, as guest editor of this volume,
emphatically share. Poems with staying power are always themselves
acts of attentiveness, and reading any good poem both demands and
rewards attention. The job, then, is to make sure poems can be
found in waiting rooms, where they will always be needed. All the
works in this collection (primarily poems but also a handful of
short prose pieces) enact longing and memory; they recall, they
evoke, they praise. The writing of just about every piece in this
book turns out to have been an act of reclamation, an evocation of
some lost original, which isn't so lost after all.
"The pieces gathered here touch upon themes poets have always
visited: memory, family, love, loss, nature. Voices and styles
naturally and delightfully vary; some pieces are chiseled and
succinct, others loose and rhapsodic. But all, in addition to being
accomplished, share the generosity and intensity of their attention
to a particular piece of experience."
Among the contributors are Robin Behn, Maxine Kumin, Molly Peacock,
Linda Pastan, Liz Rosenberg, Elizabeth Spires, and Jeffrey
Harrison.
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