Blood and bone

Eds Angela Belli, Jack Coulehan University of Iowa Press, £16.95, pp 224 ISBN 0877456380 ![][1] Rating: ![Graphic][2] ![Graphic][3] Why do some doctors write poems? In Poems Before and After Miroslav Holub wrote that a poem arises when there's nothing else to be done, as a last attempt at order when one can't stand disorder any longer: “Although poets are most needed when freedom, vitamin C, communications, laws and hypertension therapy are also most needed, a poem is not one of the last but one of the first things of man.” As a … [1]: /embed/graphic-1.gif [2]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif [3]: /embed/inline-graphic-2.gif