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by: Karen Chase
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89165
EAN: 9780814333150
ISBN: 081433315X
Label: Wayne State Univ Pr
Manufacturer: Wayne State Univ Pr
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 196
Publication Date: January 31, 2007
Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr
Sales Rank: 1123291
Studio: Wayne State Univ Pr
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For more than a decade, Karen Chase taught poetry writing to severely incapacitated patients at a large psychiatric hospital outside of New York City. During that time, she began working with Ben, a handsome, formerly popular and athletic young man who had given up speaking and had withdrawn from social interaction. Meeting on the locked ward every week for two years, Chase and Ben passed a pad of paper back and forth, taking turns writing one line of poetry each, ultimately producing 180 poems that responded to, diverged from, and built on each other s words. Land of Stone is Chase s account of writing with Ben, an experience that was deeply transformative for both poet and patient.
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