Tender Fences

By Richard M. Berlin

Richard M. Berlin's fifth collection of poems, Tender Fences, spans the arc of the poet's career as a doctor and psychiatrist. Beginning with his family's hopes and expectations, and his own dream to become a doctor, Berlin explores the challenges of medical and psychiatric training, his years of practice, and the deep rewards that grow from healing relationships structured by a "tender fence" which provides the necessary boundaries for closeness and distance. Berlin's voice touches on themes of intimacy, love, the doctor-patient relationship, the drama of psychotherapy, a doctor's sense of responsibility, transience, aging, and the satisfactions that come from a healer's life. With these poems, Richard M. Berlin confirms that medical and psychiatric practice fit well with Pablo Neruda's description of poetry as, "Entrance into the depth of things in a headlong act of love."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1962847020
• ISBN13: 9781962847025
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: DOS Madres Press
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"