Ready or Not: Poems from the ER

by Ken Patterson

The ER miniaturizes life. The hurt, pain, and sometimes pleasure of our existence are distilled and concentrated in this one room. It's a place to sharpen defenses or to open up to the humanity bleeding there-and to the bleeding humanity in us.

In this moving collection of poetry from one who has experienced the ER first hand, author D. Ken Patterson, M.D., examines our existence on this fragile planet and in these fragile bodies. Lives come into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595421458
• ISBN13: 9780595421459
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"