Daughter
poems
Published on 10. August 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
60 pages
978-1-7364168-3-9 (ISBN)
Description
In this exquisite volume of poems, Cortney Davis confronts her daughter's serious illness just as the world is facing the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the work of a nurse, a mother, and an eloquent witness, whose gaze is clear and whose heart is generous. Davis is a poet of stunning power and grace. It is impossible to remain unmoved as one reads the poems in this collection.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
103 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7364168-3-9 (9781736416839)
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Cortney Davis is the author of four previous full-length poetry collections, three poetry chapbooks, and three memoirs. She is co-editor of three anthologies of creative writing by nurses. Honors include an NEA Poetry Grant, three Connecticut Commission on the Arts Poetry Grants, two Connecticut Center for the Book Awards, the Prairie Schooner Book Award, an Independent Publisher's Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal in Non-Fiction, and six Books of the Year first place awards in the category of creative works from the American Journal of Nursing.