Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Great Regulars: These issues of death and grief

are approached with humanism and humility. From "The Visit": "The once-master of my universe/walks with an unsteady gait/My own mortality/slaps me in the face." [Belinda] Subraman's helplessness in the face of her father's death is totally frank, yet, in "River of Life," she answers the question of how she deals with dying in her job as a nurse, saying, "I am filled with joy/for a painless passing/surrounded by love./I feel sadness/for the breaking/of an intimate bond."

from Donna Snyder: El Paso Times: Hospice nurse-poet uniquely qualified to write about death

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