Sea Creatures and Other Poems - Softcover

Rowe, Vernon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0964705303 ISBN 13: 9780964705302

Publisher: Whirlybird Press, 1995

Synopsis

Sea Creatures is a collection of poems about a physician's life and some of his patients. Taken together, these poems embody the art of medicine.

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About the Author

After a brief time in Mississippi, Vernon Rowe was reared in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina. He graduated from Duke University and Duke Medical School and was trained in neurology at Johns Hopkins. After five years of teaching at the University of Kansas Medical School, he entered the private practice of neurology in Kansas City. He is president of Consultants in Neurology (www.cinpc.com). In his practice he also flies a small helicopter to clinics in surrounding rural communities. In addition to poetry he has also authored plays, short stories, and screenplays. Several of his poems have appeared in anthologies. He and his wife Betsy have twin boys, and live in Kansas City

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MRI of a Poet's Brain

In this image
of your brain
I see each curve
in the corpus callosum,
curlicues of gyri,
folding of fissures,
sinuous sulci,
mammillary bodies,
arcuate fasciculus,
angular gyrus,
tracts and nuclei,
eyes and ears,
tougue and pharynx,

but not even
a single syllable
of one
tiny
poem.

Edition details

• Publisher: Whirlybird Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0964705303
• ISBN 13: 9780964705302
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 54