As people live longer, we face the challenges that come with caring for, and living as, an aging population. This collection focuses on the sad, funny, mundane reality of life in a nursing home. In her own words, Janice N. Harrington worked her way through college as a nurses' aide and wrote The Hands of Strangers because she "cannot forget the 'girls' I worked with or the 'residents' under my care. I haven't forgotten what I saw, heard, felt, or learned."
Janic N. Harrington's debut Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone earned teh 2007 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, and an NEA fellowship for poetry.
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@LaurenceFoshee Thank you for sharing. This book might wreck you (if u haven't already read it): https://t.co/kaxoPTjiiH The Hands of Strangers by Janice N Harrington
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Janice N. Harrington’s latest book of poetry is Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin. She is the author of two previous poetry collections, Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone and The Hands of Strangers, as well as several award-winning children’s books. https://t.co/0hmfR9R2LV
"Janice Harrington's work should be required reading for nurses, doctors and practitioners entering the ward." - The Washington Independent Review of Books
"Janice Harrington, an accomplished poet and author of children's books, takes on a difficult, deep, yet rewarding topic in this collection of poems regarding life in a nursing home...You will not look at someone in scrubs who you know is not a doctor the same again when you see them in the grocery store at some odd hour, tired as all, buying something for dinner at midnight...The ability of poetry to bring difficult lives into view with empathy is something Harrington handles with the utmost of skill, and I do hope she will continue to apply for all of our profit."-Coal Hill Review
"This book-length collection of poems vividly describes the daily routines and grapples with the philosophical concerns of long-term care, including the complexities of aging, the burdens and rewards of caregiving, and the inevitably of death," says Mullaney. "...you don't need to be a particular fan of poetry to appreciate Harrington's work. Her language, while artful, is rarely esoteric, and many of the poems tell some sort of story or paint a portrait of a character." - Mcknight's Long-term Care News