Florence Nightingale's Lost Log
Paperback 36 pages English 12-Aug-21
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"What strange mercy I sew with dull pins," says Florence Nightingale in Bernadette McComish's fascinating new chapbook. In spare, deadly accurate lines--a nurse's work in Crimean winter is "closing eyes/frozen open"--McComish will show you the antipodes of the human condition: our capacity for suffering, our ability to love in the face of horror, and the silence at the heart of our lives. Florence Nightingale's Lost Log is a brilliant achievement." -Dennis Nurkse Florence Nightingale's Lost log is an imagined affair between history's most famous nurse and a soldier during the Crimean War. Nightingale unapologetically gave up romantic relationships to be in service of others. In these lost pages she reveals a longing and passion for connection, if only in her mind.
- Author:
- Bernadette McComish
- Publisher:
- Lily Poetry Review
- Publication Date:
- 12-Aug-21
- Number of pages:
- 36 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1736599089
- ISBN-13:
- 9781736599082