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Poetry’s balm: illuminate illness, injury, and the long road to recovery.
Poems of Healing
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- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2021
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Summary
From ancient Greece and Rome (Sappho, Marcellus Empiricus) to the current Covid 19 crisis (Eavan Boland’s ‘Quarantine’), poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind.
Poems of Healing is a small treasury of their words, illuminating many different experiences of illness, injury and convalescence, from John Donne’s ‘Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse’ to Thom Gunn’s ‘The Man with Night Sweats’; from Anne Finch’s ‘Spleen’ to Jan…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841598222 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841598224 |
| Author: | Karl Kirchwey |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2021 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 166mm x 112mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library POCKET POETS |
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