Talking Cure (eBook)

New and Selected Poems

Jack Coulehan (Autor)

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2020
214 Seiten
Plain View Press, LLC (Verlag)
978-1-63210-079-5 (ISBN)

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In The Talking Cure, physician-poet Jack Coulehan provides new poems plus a selection of work from six other books. His work explores the mysterious tension between tenderness and steadiness in medical practice plumbing into life's essential minutiae: the observed moment, the healing gesture, the internal response. These poems look beyond the difficulties of physical existence to see the worth and holiness of the individual. With directness, passion and even humor, they evoke an ethic of compassionate solidarity between patient and doctor, person and family, the individual and the community.Jack Coulehan's The Talking Cure takes us on a wild, wonderful and wide ranging journey, sweeping us along on a current of poems: accomplished, fierce, gentle, intelligent and, above all, compassionate. Coulehan writes about the joys of medicine, of family, of love and faith, while not ignoring the frustrations of caring deeply for others, how sometimes even the most compassionate must struggle to "e;squeeze a portion"e; of the heart, allowing "e;a few drops of compassion"e; to escape ("e;Lift Up Your Heart"e;). The author writes most often in the voice of a physician, but also in the voice of patients, revealing their terrors and ravages, fears often shared by the narrator as he deftly balances the clinical and the humane in poetry that is rich with images, deeply personal, and often simply beautiful.-Cortney Davis, author of Taking Care of Time, www.cortneydavis.comIn The Talking Cure, distinguished physician and poet Jack Coulehan gathers thirty years of his work at the intersection of storytelling and healing. Here we encounter us all: a six-hundred pound man propped up in side-by-side hospital beds, a wife of a doctor turned by illness into patient herself, a man in the clinic of a local Starbucks becomes a woman, the absent fathers and distant mothers, each afflicted with the same need to be heard, and to be seen, in the miserable beauty of our shared human condition. We hear their heartbeats in this skilled poet's iambs and see their swollen legs in the full shapes of stanzas. Like Chekhov and Whitman, kindred spirits he evokes, in his every line Coulehan asks, "e;How can I open up, give voice // turn these words into flesh?"e; His answer is this unflinching, humane, and always attentively listening of poetry.-Rafael Campo, author of Comfort Measures OnlyHere in your hands is the best glimpse available into our world of medicine, its joys and sorrows, its discoveries and its mysteries. Here are poems that will stay with you, poems of courage, poems of value to you. Dr. Coulehan gives us the best words in the best order. You can't do better than that.-Michael A. LaCombe, MD, MACP, FRCP (London), LHD (hon.); Poetry Editor, Annals of Internal MedicineJack Coulehan, the author of this remarkable collection, once wrote that physicians need both steadiness and tenderness to practice their trade. I would add, as do poets. Each poem in The Talking Cure brings a disarmingly honest and steadfast gaze to the joys and sorrows of the human condition, filtered through profound observations about doctors and patients, people and places. Simultaneously, each piece is suffused with a fierce compassion that acknowledges human vulnerability and finitude, while celebrating our resilience and indomitable spirit. These poems will inspire and uplift you, even as they break your heart.-Johanna Shapiro, PhD. Director, Program in Medical Humanities & Arts, UCI School of Medicine

Inhalt

from The Knitted Glove (1991)
Anatomy Lesson
Finches
The Knitted Glove
Lake Effect
Banana Bread
Good News
Anniversary

from First Photographs Of Heaven (1994)
"Spaceship Takes Photographs of Heaven"
Poison
The Man with a Hole in His Face
The Act of Love28
Complications
McGonigle's Foot
Alabama
The Rule of Thirds
My Father Sends Me Out for Tobacco
Tumbleweed
The Dust of the West
Jerusalem
Labrador
St. Ronan's Finger
My Uganda
Lima Bean

from The Heavenly Ladder (2001)
The Window of My Discontent
D-Day, 1994
Soundings: Three for the Stethoscope
The Doctor's Wife
Isn't
Scents
Natural History
Barnacles
Icon of the Heavenly Ladder
To the Mummy of a Thief in the Crypt of St. Michan's Church, Dublin
Keeping Dry
These Shards Are Wrist Bones
Don't Be Afraid, Gringo
Guam

from Medicine Stone (2002)
Lachrymae Rerum
Sirens
I'm Gonna Slap Those Doctors
The Six Hundred Pound Man
The Man with Stars Inside Him
Brain Fever
The Pounds of Flesh
Death House
Work Rounds: On Lines by Tomas Transtromer
Medicine Stone
My Machine
The Shoe
Reverence for Life
Accidental
Scorpion
Sir William Osler Remembers His Call on Walt Whitman
Sunsets
Chrysler for Sale

from Bursting with Danger and Music (2012)
Bursting with Danger and Music
Sewage Treatment
Grease
Deep Structures
from The Internship Sonnets
That Intern Dream
Virginia Ham
All Souls' Day
Darkness Is Gathering Me
Detached Concern
Cosmic Sonnets
Midnight Romance
Phrenology
Astonishment
He Lectures on Grace
He Lectures at the Heritage Association Dinner
William Carlos Williams Circumcises Ernest Hemingway's First Son
Delicate Procedures
Do No Harm
Toenails
Theology
A Theory of Labor
Levitation

from The Wound Dresser (2016)
On Reading Walt Whitman's "The Wound Dresser"
The Secret of the Care
Take Off Your Clothes
Anita and Vladimir
The Silk Robe
Corrigan and the Giant
The Exterior Palace
Metamorphosis at Starbucks
Lift Up Your Heart
Ralph Angelo Attends the Barbeque
Skinwalkers
Ockham's Razor
Poem for David
War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City
Cesium 137
Burial Rite
Sacrament of the Sick
Shall Inherit
At the Egyptian Market in Istanbul
"Pair Chase Boy for His Urine"
Montazah Gardens, Alexandria
Night Vision
Phone Call from Alaska
Dr. Barrone
The Biopsy Room: Prostate
Incomplete Knowledge
Retrospective

So Many Remedies: A Selection of Chekhov Poems
Chekhov Attends the Greek School
The Student
Chekhov Reflects on Nikolai's Death from Consumption
Chekhov Searches for Happiness
Six Prescriptions of Chekhov
On Sakhalin Island
Empty Soup
Cholera
The Hypnotist
Chekhov Makes Love at a Distance
The Cherry Orchard
For Oysters Only

Previously Uncollected Poems
Journey
The Elephant with a Cork in Its Butt
Adelaide
Death Benefits
Pantoum on Sayings of William Osler
Mother and Child, 1943
Home Repairs
On Ice
After a Photograph of Anne Holding Her Morning Cup of Coffee
Satyagraha
Used Golf Balls
Theories of the Soul

The Talking Cure: New Poems
Three Points of Reference
The Talking Cure
The Egyptian Goddess
Compassion
Reflection
Prison Break
Shadow Children
Cultural Exchange
Guardian Angel
Burial Mounds
Darwin's Prayer
Garden of Endurance
The Hippos of Camden, New Jersey
The War of All Against All
The Conference of Germs
The Persistence of Metaphor
Ghazal: Embodied
Automotive
The Old Dilemma
In Praise of Virtue
Banana Harvest
The Violin
Knik Glacier
Constellations
Regarding Kindness

Acknowledgments
About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Art of Medicine • Compassion • coronovirus • Covid • Covid-19 • Death • death and dying • Disease and health • Doctor-patient • Doctor-patient relationship • Dying • Empathy • Family Communication • Family relationships • history of medicine • Human Worth • Illness • medical education • Medical Ethics • Medicine • Memory • Pain • patient experience • Physician experience • Suffering
• ISBN-10: 1-63210-079-7 / 1632100797
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63210-079-5 / 9781632100795