Notes from a Caregiver - Couverture souple

Lindsay, Meg

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1948461528 ISBN 13 : 9781948461528

Editeur : Poetry Box, The, 2020

Synopsis

Inspired by the doctor and poet, William Carlos Williams, who wrote poetry on his prescription pad when on house calls, the poems in Notes from a Caregiver originated in waiting rooms and doctors' offices when Meg Lindsay's husband collapsed with multiple myeloma, a cancer, causing bone fractures. Lindsay writes of her personal journey as a caregiver, not clichés and 'feel good' sayings, which can be isolating and make one feel inadequate. Instead, she uses poetry to reveal authentic emotions, often odd and unpredictable, ranging from compassion to despair to anger and even to humor.

Early Praise:

“Notes from a Caregiver is a ‘must read’ for anyone, caregiver, patient, family member, or friend, who finds herself or himself in the chaos of a critical illness. I wish I had had it to accompany me when I was the primary caregiver for my husband in similar circumstances. In addition, as a psychotherapist in private practice, I see Meg Lindsay’s book of poems as a guide for medical professionals, psychotherapist, and technicians, who treat people suffering from life-threatening illnesses, and their families. We can all become more educated to the sensitivities, and vulnerabilities, of the psychic shock that comes with this territory.”
—Bonnie L. Damron, PhD, LCSW, Archetypal Pattern Analyst

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

A semi-finalist in two Discovery/The Nation Contests and a finalist in an Inkwell competition, Meg Lindsay has had poems published in Tricycle, Pivot, Salamander, Alimentum, Connecticut River Review, etc. and earned an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. Because she is also an established painter showing for decades in galleries and museums, her chapbook about the emotions and difficulties of painting, A Painter's Night Journal, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2016. Writers love to write about paintings, but most writers confine themselves to the subject matter of a painting, not the process, since after all most do not paint. The subject of her writing dramatically changed direction when her husband, an athlete never ill before, collapsed with cancer in his bones, multiple myeloma, that same year. She gained direct knowledge of what it means to be a caregiver, a different and extraordinarily difficult learning process from anything she had ever known before.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Poetry Box, The
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1948461528
• ISBN 13: 9781948461528
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 50
• Éditeur: Aveningo Sanders Shawn
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible