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The Waiting Room Reader. Stories to Keep You Company.
Joan Cusack Handler
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Description for The Waiting Room Reader. Stories to Keep You Company.
Paperback. Editor(s): Handler, Joan Cusack. Num Pages: 104 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 200.
The Reader was co-sponsored and co-conceived by CavanKerry and LaurelBooks partner, The Arnold P.Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine. Publisher Joan Cusack Handler and Gold Foundation President and CEO Sandra Gold observed that patients, while waiting to learn about their physical health, typically are provided only pop culture magazines-perhaps entertaining but without the solace and comfort that literature provides. The Waiting Room Reader was designed to address that need by bringing fine and accessible writing to "keep the patients company." Here are uplifting and inspiring poems that focus on life's gifts - everyday pleasures: love and family, food and ... Read more
The Reader was co-sponsored and co-conceived by CavanKerry and LaurelBooks partner, The Arnold P.Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine. Publisher Joan Cusack Handler and Gold Foundation President and CEO Sandra Gold observed that patients, while waiting to learn about their physical health, typically are provided only pop culture magazines-perhaps entertaining but without the solace and comfort that literature provides. The Waiting Room Reader was designed to address that need by bringing fine and accessible writing to "keep the patients company." Here are uplifting and inspiring poems that focus on life's gifts - everyday pleasures: love and family, food and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
CavanKerry Press United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Fort Lee, United States
ISBN
9781933880136
SKU
V9781933880136
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Joan Cusack Handler
JOAN CUSACK HANDLER is the author of two poetry collections, GlOrious, which debuted in 2003 and The Red Canoe: Love in Its Making, a verse memoir which was released in Fall, 2008. Recipient of 4 Pushcart nominations and The Sampler Award from The Boston Review, she is founder and publisher of CavanKerry Press Ltd.
Reviews for The Waiting Room Reader. Stories to Keep You Company.
"The Waiting Room Reader brings poetry into those boring, anxiety-laden waiting rooms of laboratories, prenatal clinics, dental clinics, x-ray centers, all the anterooms of all the places we attend for medical procedures and results. Given the percentage of our lives we spend waiting in such places with CNN blaring, now there is the antidote of poetry - right there next ... Read more