Our Aching Bones, Our Breaking Hearts: Poems on Aging

by Joel Savishinsky

We confront our own aging long before we ourselves become old. Through the roles we play as family, friends, or caregivers to our elders, we learn to anticipate our own later years. Drawing on the author's half-century career in gerontology and anthropology, the poems of Our Aching Bones, Our Breaking Hearts explore the physical, emotional, and spiritual impact of the aging experience on the nurses and patients, parents and grandparents,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1956285334
• ISBN13: 9781956285338
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Poetry Box
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"