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Poetry in Medicine, An Anthology of Poems About Doctors, Patients, Illness and Healing, Persea Books, New York, 2015 (anthology). A Prague Spring, Before & After, Evening Street Press, Sacramento, 2016; winner of the 2015 Sinclair Poetry Prize.
Healing Words: Poetry and Medicine is a sixty-minute documentary (ISBN 978-0-7936-9468-6) filmed in 2008 primarily at Shands at the University of Florida.The production portrays individuals in personal quest to recover psychologically and physically from illnesses that have dramatically changed their lives.
Cook's writing often explores grief, addiction, healing, and mental health. Her poetry is characterized by "direct, unflinching honesty and rich compassion." [3] [11] In 2016, Cook released poetry collection Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately. [12] The book tackled life, death, love, trauma and growth.
The Nine Herbs Charm, Nigon Wyrta Galdor, Lay of the Nine Healing Herbs, or Nine Wort Spell (among other names) is an Old English charm recorded in the tenth century CE. [1] It is part of the Anglo-Saxon medical compilation known as Lacnunga , which survives in the manuscript Harley MS 585 in the British Library. [ 2 ]
Judith Harris is an American poet and the author of Night Garden (Tiger Bark Press, 2013), Atonement (LSU, 2000), The Bad Secret (LSU, 2006), and the critical book Signifying Pain: Constructing and Healing the Self Through Writing (SUNY, 2003).
In the poem “Painted Tongue,” Byas writes: “We twist and turn in the mirror,/ my mother and I becoming each other,/ her bruises and scars passed down,/ family heirlooms that will take/ me ...
The poem describes a daughter visiting her mother in hospital. [11] The daughter brings her mother gifts such as Lucozade, which was commonly given to sick people. [12] Her mother refuses to take the gifts. The poem ends with the daughter removing the symbols of illness and in turn lifting the burden of illness. [13]
It is widely acknowledged that trauma is prevalent among veterans, and research indicates that writing therapy can play a significant role in their self-healing journey. A primary contributor to trauma is the sense of powerlessness. Writing facilitates self-healing against this sense of helplessness through the strategy of mythologization.