Saying the World
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.31 (984 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1556591977 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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All rights reserved. That poem is one, not necessarily the best, in the book's first section, consisting of what might be called clinical poems. From Booklist A physician as well as a poet, Pereira believes doctors in training should learn to appreciate and write poetry. "What Is Lost," already used in many teaching situations, reports a clinical scene--the doctor conversing, via an interpreter, with a Khmer refugee about how to relieve her troubled sleep--with marvelous economy and, thanks to giddying focal shifts from scarred survivor to an entire brutalized nation, maximal power. The second section's poems of identity and family, and the third's, concerned with Pereira's ordinary life as a gay man, reveal particulars that motivate this doctor's compassion and others that
From Eclectica Review, Gilbert Wesley Purdy Peter Pereira, the author of Saying the World, is a doctor. In an age where most drama is experienced vicariously through the television and movies, or through pre-packaged, safety-tested "experience products" such as theme parks and two-week package tours, the hospital is one of the few remaining places where the drama is real. Each of us shares in it for brief periods. The doc. "From the NYU Literature and Medicine database" according to a reader. This three-part collection of poems offers powerful images and vignettes from the life of a family practitioner living and working among the urban poor. The first section is the most explicitly medical in theme, including poems that pay painful tribute to a mother after stillbirth, a hydrocephalic child, an addict covered with boils, a young man murdered at eighteen, an old man . I feel wiser for having read it. Kathleen Flenniken Peter Pereira's first collection, "Saying the World," is utterly lovely, deeply moving. His poems have been called "complex" and I'd agree. But Pereira has managed something amazing--he suggests the deep complexities of a life and yet again and again pinpoints moments of clarity, purity.We witness so much through these poems: the life of a doctor, the death of a young sister, th
He is the winner of a "Discovery"/The Nation Award, and his poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including JAMA, Poetry, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and in the anthology To Come to Light: Perspectives on Chronic Illness in Modern Literature.. With gloved fingerswe tug at the wound’s gaping edgesuntil we’ve exposed the bulging uterus,round and smooth as a giant D’Anjou pear.Only minutes ago, I wrote the words fetal distressand panting she signed consent to open her belly.Now I imagine her baby is like Houdinijacketed inside a treasure chest five fathomsdown, mouth gagged, lungs bursting, time running out .Peter Pereira is a family physician in Seattle and currently provides primary care to an urban poor population, including refugees, immigrants, and the elderly. Peter Pereira is at the forefront of a national movement of medical practitioners who utilize literature as a part o