{"product_id":"an-otherwise-healthy-woman-paperback-softback-9781496227850","title":"An Otherwise Healthy Woman (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496227850","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAn Otherwise Healthy Woman\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAmy Haddad (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496227850\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 March 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e88 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“A clear-eyed look at what it is to be on both sides of America’s health care system, this book of poems offers rare insight into the humanity of the health care professional and the humanity of the patient. Spare and truthful, sorrowful and wise, these poems are necessary in both their deep empathy and their fierce gaze into mortality.”-Ada LimÓn, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Carrying\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Amy Haddad’s poems impress and move as much for their implacable precision as their empathetic alertness to the variations of human pain in the twenty-first century, across a family, an individual life, a world. \u003ci\u003eAn Otherwise Healthy Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is, as one of her poem titles tags it, a ‘hire-wire’ act, at once accomplished and devastating.”-Robert Polito, author of \u003ci\u003eHollywood and God\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“The stories weave in and out with an incredible understatement that brings the stakes out to you like a slap.”-Matt Mason, Nebraska state poet\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Haddad’s poems are masterfully crafted and painfully honest-at moments, even harrowing. Yet here is a poet who, when the tension gets to be almost more than the reader can bear, offers up her own brilliant brand of comic relief. One of the strongest collections of poetry I have read in years.”-Cathy Smith Bowers, former poet laureate of North Carolina and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Abiding Image\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFirst Place in Creative Works from the American Journal of Nursing's Book of the Year Awards\u003cbr\u003e Second Place in Professional Issues from the American Journal of Nursing's Book of the Year Awards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The poems in \u003ci\u003eAn Otherwise Healthy Woman\u003c\/i\u003e delve into the complexity of modern health care, illness, and healing, offering an alternative narrative to heroics and miracles. Drawing on Amy Haddad’s firsthand experiences as a nurse and patient, the poems in this collection teach us to take a moment to stop and acknowledge the longing for compassion in each of us, what ought to be the immediate human response to suffering. The poet isn’t afraid to explore her own fears and failures or to find joy and humor in the many roles women play. \u003ci\u003eAn Otherwise Healthy Woman\u003c\/i\u003e presents the intimate experiences of a nurse, the vulnerable perspective of a patient, and the lessons of caring for family.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. In the Clutch of a Rubber Band\u003cbr\u003e Making Camp\u003cbr\u003e Cafeteria-2013\u003cbr\u003e Admissions\u003cbr\u003e Flexion\/Extension\u003cbr\u003e The Day after Memorial Day\u003cbr\u003e At Rehab\u003cbr\u003e Home Assessment\u003cbr\u003e Flipping Garlic Toast\u003cbr\u003e From the Motel Window\u003cbr\u003e Whole-Berry Cranberry Sauce\u003cbr\u003e The Promises Women Make to Each Other\u003cbr\u003e My Role as the Wife\u003cbr\u003e The Fit of Suffering\u003cbr\u003e 2. What We Did on the Floor\u003cbr\u003e Overture\u003cbr\u003e A Guide to the Physical Exam\u003cbr\u003e Blame Placing\u003cbr\u003e Dehiscence\u003cbr\u003e Gallows Humor\u003cbr\u003e Second-Degree Block\u003cbr\u003e The White Stucco House\u003cbr\u003e Families Like This\u003cbr\u003e The Course of Leukemia\u003cbr\u003e Day’\u003cbr\u003es End at the Farmer’\u003cbr\u003es Market in Montparnasse\u003cbr\u003e Ten Items or Less\u003cbr\u003e 3. Cut along the Lines\u003cbr\u003e Stereotactic Biopsy\u003cbr\u003e Nuclear Bone Scan\u003cbr\u003e An Otherwise Healthy Woman\u003cbr\u003e Infidelity\u003cbr\u003e Chemotherapy Lounge\u003cbr\u003e Post-Op\u003cbr\u003e Cat Scan\u003cbr\u003e Chemotherapy Side Effects\u003cbr\u003e French Weaving for Damages\u003cbr\u003e Before- and After-Breasts\u003cbr\u003e Port-a-Cath\u003cbr\u003e Dark Rides\u003cbr\u003e High-Wire Act\u003cbr\u003e New to the Joint\u003cbr\u003e Ode to a Freckle above My Left Breast\u003cbr\u003e Oarsmen at Chatou\u003cbr\u003e Cut along the Lines\u003cbr\u003e Jug Shots\u003cbr\u003e Bottom of the Cup\u003cbr\u003e The Commercial Version of Metastatic Breast Cancer\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The Backwaters Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599914266904,"sku":"9781496227850","price":11.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/an-otherwise-healthy-woman-paperback-softback-9781496227850","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}