
The Hands of Strangers
Poems from the Nursing Home
Janice N. Harrington(Author)
BOA Editions, Limited (Publisher)
Published on 6. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-934414-54-5 (ISBN)
Description
"The Hands of Strangers" portrays the tensions and moments of grace between aged nursing home residents and their healthcare workers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Paperback (trade)
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-934414-54-5 (9781934414545)
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Janice N. Harrington: Janice N. Harrington writes poetry and children's books. She grew up in Alabama and Nebraska, and both those settings figure largely in her writing. Her first book of poetry, Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone (2007), won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize from BOA Editions and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is also the winner of a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Poetry and a 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for emerging women writers. The author as well of award-winning children's books, Harrington now teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois.