Is There a Doctor on Board?

Williams, Trinity

ISBN 10: 1594980713 / ISBN 13: 9781594980718

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Is There a Doctor on Board?
• ISBN 10: 1594980713
• ISBN 13: 9781594980718
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

When an atheist says bless you takes the reader deeper into the strange terrain covered by Jolly's first collection, Why ice cream trucks play Christmas songs.

These poems begin in familiar surroundings: newspaper clippings, snippets of history, Bible stories, and scenes embedded in our psyches such as an elementary school hallway. Their fulfillment, though, crosses into a place where Charles Darwin apologizes to Adam in Eden, or chants Jabberwocky to himself. A place where the stonemasons who build a cathedral abstain from swearing, and that abstinence is felt as a palpable blessing centuries later. A place where two patients who share a hospital room also share a clipboard with mingled notes for doctors and chaplains.

This place, though surprising, is also oddly familiar. Maybe this is, after all, the world where we live. Maybe, with Jolly's help, we can see it for the first time.

About the Author

Paul Jolly grew up in Oakland, California. After three decades in the Washington, DC, area, he returned to California in 2019. His poems have appeared in the Columbia Journal, Straylight Literary Magazine, Permafrost, and Hotel Amerika. Fernwood Press published his first poetry book, Why ice cream trucks play Christmas songs, in 2019. He is a professional fundraiser for non-profit organizations, a creativity coach, and a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).