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Michael Salcman

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Description:Michael Salcman is a physician, brain scientist, and essayist on the visual arts. He was chairman of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland and president of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. Recent poems appear in the Ontario Review, Harvard Review, Raritan, Notre Dame Review, River Styx, and New York Quarterly. His work has been heard on NPR's All Things Considered, and in Euphoria, a documentary on the brain and creativity (2005). He is the author of six medical textbooks and three previous chapbooks of poems. His first collection, The Clock Made of Confetti, was published by Orchises Press in 2007.Excerpt:The Ice HouseLater, in our yearbook, they caption a photo of George,his mouth gaping open as if to say'we're going to carry what up from where?'that first day of class two or three of us at a time liftbodies onto a fireman's stretcher, and carry the corpsesout of a late nineteenth-century red brick Victorianacross a small courtyard and up a short flight of stairsinto the anatomy lab next door. The dead weigh morethan we do, fresh from the ice house they're heavier still;hands at their sides, standing attention in repose,their clay-colored faces flat as cardboard, eyes closedlips pursed, holding in the separate secretsof their final moments, the fleeing of their souls.Because of a shortage in donations, it's four to a body.Over the next weeks and months, nerves and tendonscome up to greet the ministrations of our knives.We give them names before we flay (in order)their extremities, belly, heart and head, and leave nothingmuch behind except attachments to bone, the blacktongue and the brain in its casement. Not all of usare equally deft--you can already tell who the futuresurgeons are and who the psychoanalysts. We makethe usual jokes about girls who study late and fall asleepover the bodies, but in general these dead get a modicumof respect not accorded them in life.They're the first people we learn to read like books,exemplars of the future and texts off the street.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Stones In Our Pockets: Art and the Art of Medicine (Parallel Press Chapbook Series). To get started finding Stones In Our Pockets: Art and the Art of Medicine (Parallel Press Chapbook Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Michael Salcman is a physician, brain scientist, and essayist on the visual arts. He was chairman of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland and president of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. Recent poems appear in the Ontario Review, Harvard Review, Raritan, Notre Dame Review, River Styx, and New York Quarterly. His work has been heard on NPR's All Things Considered, and in Euphoria, a documentary on the brain and creativity (2005). He is the author of six medical textbooks and three previous chapbooks of poems. His first collection, The Clock Made of Confetti, was published by Orchises Press in 2007.Excerpt:The Ice HouseLater, in our yearbook, they caption a photo of George,his mouth gaping open as if to say'we're going to carry what up from where?'that first day of class two or three of us at a time liftbodies onto a fireman's stretcher, and carry the corpsesout of a late nineteenth-century red brick Victorianacross a small courtyard and up a short flight of stairsinto the anatomy lab next door. The dead weigh morethan we do, fresh from the ice house they're heavier still;hands at their sides, standing attention in repose,their clay-colored faces flat as cardboard, eyes closedlips pursed, holding in the separate secretsof their final moments, the fleeing of their souls.Because of a shortage in donations, it's four to a body.Over the next weeks and months, nerves and tendonscome up to greet the ministrations of our knives.We give them names before we flay (in order)their extremities, belly, heart and head, and leave nothingmuch behind except attachments to bone, the blacktongue and the brain in its casement. Not all of usare equally deft--you can already tell who the futuresurgeons are and who the psychoanalysts. We makethe usual jokes about girls who study late and fall asleepover the bodies, but in general these dead get a modicumof respect not accorded them in life.They're the first people we learn to read like books,exemplars of the future and texts off the street.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Stones In Our Pockets: Art and the Art of Medicine (Parallel Press Chapbook Series). To get started finding Stones In Our Pockets: Art and the Art of Medicine (Parallel Press Chapbook Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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