Edited
by Neeta Jain, Dagan Coppock, and Stephanie Brown Clark
BOA
Anthology Series
Body
Language: Poems of the Medical Training Experience is an
anthology comprised of poems by physicians and medical students
chronicling their unique, often harrowing experiences. The anthology
is broken into six sections: Medical Student, First Year; Second
Year; Clinical Years; Intern; Resident, and Attending. The collection
is truly unique in medical literature. With trained physicians
who are also skilled poets addressing a diverse range of medical
situations, Body Language offers fascinating insight
into the inner world of people who regularly face life-and-death
decisions.
Click [Here] to watch a video of co-editor Neeta Jain talking about the anthology and reading a sample poem.
Exposed
(to her cadaver)
by
Rishi Doshi
My
fingers course
Through
rivers of blood
Parched
from seasons without rain
A
man once despaired
To
hold you so close
Yet
never could see what I've seen
I
must apologize
For
not being gentle
This
heartstring of yours
Must
snap in the name of our intimacy
And
your loveable idiosyncrasies
I
call anomaly
As
per the instructions
I
commit you
To
bits of fleeting recollection
And
my gratitude,
May
only show when I too am discarded
To
lie with decades exposed
A
gift preserved in petals
Of
desiccated rose
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Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-929918-86-7
Price: $21.95
Publishing Date: November 2006
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