In the venerable tradition of caregivers writing about the healing arts—a tradition peopled by the likes of Anton Chekhov, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Walker Percy, and Denise Levertov—Cortney Davis brings to poetry the experience, insight, and compassion of a nurse practitioner who daily confronts the unexpected frailties, passions, and power of the flesh.
Taking the body as her text, Davis crafts her poetry from the pains of labor and the joys of birth, the depredations of disease and the sustaining hope of recovery. She trains her clear, unflinching gaze on the unfolding scene—a woman shipwrecked with a stranger; an adult reinventing childhood; an ill woman rediscovering pleasure in her body; a nurse realizing, in one harrowing instant, that she is as vulnerable as her patients—unerringly finding the particular image, the human detail, that connects reader, writer, and subject with the world. Primal, compelling, intelligent, these poems show us how to see as clearly as the poet does, with empathy and grace.

motw/Leopold's Maneuvers - Cortney Davis.pdf

Courtney Davis

Bison Books

Prairie schooner book prize in poetry, Lincoln, 2004

United States, United States of America

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University of Nebraska Press
Contents 10
Leopold's Maneuvers 16
Treatment 20
Partial Detachment 22
Lot's Wife 24
Shipwreak 25
The Brightest Star Is Home 27
Prognosis 29
Masturbation 31
The Jar beside the Bed 32
Then It Was Simple 34
Rented Rooms, Martha's VIneyard 35
Reading Sharon Olds 37
One Night in Burlington 39
Parturition 40
March 28, 2001/March 28, 1945 41
Mother's Gloves 43
Shoplifters 44
Anorexia 46
In a Deep Pool Bound by Cement 48
Ear Examined 49
Teasing Was Only the Beginning 50
The Ruined Boy 52
Nights afer Mother Died 53
When My Father's Breathing Changed 54
It Is August 24th 58
Examing the Abused Woman 60
Nunca Tu Alma 62
Every Day, the Pregnant Teenagers 63
Phallus Examined 64
Hurricane Floyd 65
The Condition of the World, August 1997 66
Charity 68
Water Story 69
Confessions 70
Story Teller 72
To Make Nothing out of Something 73
The Swan by the Mall 75
Like Mother, Thirty Years before Her Death 76
Everything in Life Is Divided 78
God and the Blueberries 80
How I'm Able to Love 81
ISBN-13:,9780803217294

Leopold's maneuvers
Treatment
Partial detachment
Lot's wife
Shipwreck
The brightest star is home
Prognosis
Masturbation
The jar beside the bed
Then it was simple
Rented rooms, Martha's Vineyard
Reading Sharon Olds
Night in Burlington
Parturition
March 28, 2001 / March 28, 1945
Mother's gloves
Shoplifters
Anorexia
In a deep pool bound by cement
Ear examined
Teasing was only the beginning
The ruined boy
Nights after mother died
When my father's breathing changed
It is august 24th
Examining the abused woman
Nunca tu alma
Every day, the pregnant teenagers
Phallus examined
Hurricane floyd
The condition of the world, august 1997
Charity
Water story
Confessions
Story teller
To make nothing out of something
The swan by the mall
Like mother, thirty years before her death
Everything in life is divided
God and the blueberries
How I'm able to love.

2025-10-27