Brief Visits: Sonnets from a Volunteer Chaplain

by Susan Palwick

Susan Palwick, novelist and Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, volunteers four hours a week as a lay chaplain in the emergency room of a local hospital. In Brief Visits, a single volunteer shift unfolds in forty-five sonnets, short poems allowing us to hear the many voices--the patients', the staff's, the chaplain's--of the ER. These stories, snippets of much larger ones, capture both the chaos and the beauty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933896884
• ISBN13: 9781933896885
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Texas Review Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.3"