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Lessons on aging and dying : a poetic autoethnography / Ronald J. Pelias.
Van Pelt Library PS3616.E3595 L47 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pelias, Ronald J., author.
- Series:
- Writing lives--ethnographic narratives
- Writing lives : ethnographic narratives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Old age--Poetry.
- Old age.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 103 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Lessons in Aging and Dying: A Poetic Autoethnography captures the experience of being elderly and facing the end of life. The book presents a collection of poems about life's end accompanied with narrative commentary. Organized as seventy-three lessons, they can be read as personal curiosities, momentary realizations, farcical departures, embarrassing fears, therapeutic encounters, experiential truths, hopeful conjectures, and inevitable destinations. This text is particularly suitable for students and researchers in subjects such as relational and family communication, gerontology and end of life care, and performance studies"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: UNIT 1 BEGINNINGS
- The Beginning
- Count Your Blessings
- Thieves
- Not Yet
- The Old Naked Man Standing in Front of the Mirror Examines the Ruins
- Beyond My Reach
- Calling You Back
- Some People Seem Surprised When Someone Over Seventy Can
- Advice to Playwrights Who Want Applause
- The Dance
- Sex on the Occasion of Another Birthday
- Watching Kids Play Football
- Boxed
- Been There Done That
- Another Day
- Dissipating
- Amused by Growing Old
- Life Strategies
- Calcifying
- Embalming
- What I Did Not Say
- UNIT 2 FROM HERE TO THERE
- Where the Day Begins
- Old Age
- Afraid
- Taking Measure
- Reminders
- A Conversation
- Appearances
- The Worry List
- Backache
- A Look
- Sculpture
- Nothing at All
- Summations
- Stop
- Settled
- Again
- Tomorrow Again
- What I Still Hold
- Resistance
- What Still Gives Pleasure
- The Line
- UNIT 3 ENDINGS
- Settling
- The Stages of Life
- Laughing
- With Age
- Final Years
- Wish
- My Turkey Neck
- Training for Elder Care
- Lucky in Old Age
- What If I Said
- Consolation
- After the Years
- The Nets We Make
- Apologies
- Regrets
- Comfort
- Soon
- What the House Keeps
- Task
- An Old Man Contemplates his Last Days
- All This
- Where Poems Begin
- Final Instructions
- Obituary
- Final Resting Place
- This I Leave You
- After I'm Gone
- In the Afterlife
- Stillness
- Signs
- What the Skeleton Resents.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Pelias, Ronald J., Lessons on aging and dying
- ISBN:
- 9780367621902
- 0367621908
- 9780367621896
- 0367621894
- OCLC:
- 1159534809
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