For Medicine, Memoriam - Couverture rigide

Basner, Robert Charles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1963908708 ISBN 13 : 9781963908701

Editeur : Spuyten Duyvil, 2025

Synopsis

R.C. Basner's collection of elegiac poems remembers with the fidelity of art. This is mature work, marked by breath-taking use of the forms of poetry, its traditions, its technē as well as its ethos. Inscribed to poets, physicians, musicians, and artists, his poems summon haunted presences and absences to come. Some of those mourned were killed in the Holocaust, igniting rage along with grief. Although the poet is himself a physician, these are not poems "about" medicine but rather poems that emerge from the doctor's inevitable grief regarding the nearness to death and the ultimate futility of impulses to heal. We welcome this powerful poetic voice, speaking at once the tongues of body, soul, and spirit.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robert Charles Basner, M.D., Columbia University Emeritus Professor of Medicine, is heir to the farms, fields, foliages, and fervents of place long slipping shyly off the Catskill Mountains. He also holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the City College of New York, where he studied composition and conducting. He currently lives in the Hudson Valley and travels to Berkeley. This is his first collection of poetry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Spuyten Duyvil
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1963908708
• ISBN 13: 9781963908701
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 92
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• Personne responsable: non disponible