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Medical Writings |21 September 2004

Music from Apartment 8: New and Selected Poems

Jason Karlawish, MD

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  • From University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Structured abstracts of information on newly published books, computer programs, selected Web sites, and other material are provided in this portion of Medical Writings. Not all items submitted by publishers are abstracted, but a listing of almost all material received can be found in the advertising pages of each issue. “Order phone” numbers can be used to place orders directly with publishers.
Stone J. 163 pages. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State Univ Pr; 2004. $20.95. ISBN 0807129542. Order phone 800-861-3477.
Field of medicine: Good poetry, like good research, speaks across disciplines. While the author is a cardiologist and the heart is the subject of just a few poems, this is a book for all.
Format: Softcover book.
Audience: Anyone with an interest in “the hard data by which our lives are lived” (from “Gaudeamus Igitur: A Valediction”).
Purpose: Stone's poems amuse, entertain, and provoke.
Content: Twenty-three new poems and selections from The Smell of Matches (Rutgers Univ Pr, 1972), In All This Rain (Louisiana Univ Pr, 1980), Renaming the Streets (Louisiana Univ Pr, 1985), and Where Water Begins (Louisiana Univ Pr, 1998).
Highlights: Through poems of markedly different styles and forms, Stone shows his preoccupations with 2 big themes: time and mortality. His talent is to start out with the mundane—rooming at a fourth-choice hotel while attending a Chicago convention—and work over the details to get to small epiphanies. He deploys decent flourishes of academic allusions, drama, and humor. Like a good clinician, he writes about what he knows and...
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Karlawish J. Music from Apartment 8: New and Selected Poems. Ann Intern Med. 2004;141:488. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-141-6-200409210-00034

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2004;141(6):488.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-141-6-200409210-00034

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