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The Diener: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807159224)
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Martha Serpas
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xThe Diener investigates loss and healing, change and permanence, in a hospital trauma center and the eroding landscape of southern Louisiana. The diener himself, the morgue attendant who assists the dead in the interstice between the living world and the world beyond, is the person with whom Martha Serpas most identifies in this collection. As a part-time hospital chaplain, Serpas possesses keen insight into the despair and resolve of patients and their families and friends.
Yet the themes in The Diener go well beyond grief and loss, as Serpas finds deeper meaning in faith, humanity, and the celebration of life. The diener is preeminent in a cast of characters-a sailor, a clerk, roustabouts, mothers, nurses, and chaplains-that represents the paradoxes of body and soul. Loss is never just absence, and presence is not necessarily wholeness. Attending to the pastoral both as ecological advocacy and spiritual care, The Diener looks to the metaphysical world and the Gulf landscape as vehicles of change and stasis.Author: Martha Serpas
ISBN-10: 0807159220
ISBN-13: 9780807159224
Publisher: LSU Press
Language: English
Published: 03/16/2015
Pages: 84
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.52w x 0.23d
By Martha Serpas
xMARTHA SERPAS has published two collections of poetry, Ce Blanche and The Dirty Side of the Storm. Active in efforts to restore Louisiana's wetlands, she co-produced Veins in the Gulf, a documentary about coastal erosion. She teaches at the University of Houston and serves as a hospital trauma chaplain.
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