- 96 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About This Book
"Found poems are to their poet what no-fault insurance is to beneficiaries: payoffs waiting to happen where everyone wins and no one is blamed.Dillard culls about 40 such happy accidents from sources as diverse as a The American Boys Handy Book (1882) and the letters of Van Gogh....the poet aims for a lucky, loaded symbolism that catapults the reader into an epiphany never imagined by the original authors." ā Publishers Weekly
In Mornings Like This, beloved author Annie Dillard has given us a witty and moving collection of poems in a wholly original form, sure to charm her fans, both old and new.
Extracting and rearranging sentences from old and odd booksāFrom D.C. Beard's "The American Boys Handy Book" in 1882 to Van Gogh's letters to David Greyson's "The Countryman's Year" in 1936āDillard has composed poems on poetry's most heartfelt themes of love, nature, nostalgia, and death. A unique, clever, and original collection, Dillard's characteristic voice sounds throughout the pages.
Frequently asked questions
Information
Emergencies
Prehospital Emergency Care and Crisis
Intervention, 1989
sounds of intense human suffering.)
If you have time and are in doubt,
Simply ask, āWhat
Would you like me to call you?ā
To see a bleeding site clearly.
Put on a pair of latex
Or surgical gloves to protect yourself ā¦
Attach great significance
To religious symbols.
Unless it is necessary for treatment,
Do not remove crosses or amulets.
Suicide notes, and compile
The relevant materials. Is the patient
Restless, irritable, or combative?
Than try to remove weapons
Or potential weapons from unstable
Victims, relatives, bystanders.
Turn off the TV?ā Or do it yourself.
On the ground on her left side,
Maāam, and hold her hand.
Talk to her. Donāt move
Her arm, and donāt let her move
Her head. Iām going
To be checking her hips and legs.ā
Already given (for example,
āYouāve done a good job
Of immobilizing the headā).
A shoulder. Remember that
You have to be comfortable doing it,
And not just trying it as a gimmick.
An ankle, if you are working
Near the foot is not
Usually considered intimate.
Patting above the knee is.
Help from a woman EMT
Or a woman patient being treated
By a male EMT will automatically
Respond to comforting physical
Gestures with flirtatious behavior.
Do not respond by flirting back.
Or organ before you examine it.
Where were you going, or where
Are you? Can you tell me the date
(Day of the week, year)?
Preciselyāādisoriented to time.ā
Either ask yes-or-no questions
When you move your arm?ā)
āTell me about your last mealā).
Crushing? Stabbing? Does
The pain change in intensity
Or remain constant? What
Started it? How long ago?
Can he identify the stimulus?
How does he respond to pain?
With unconscious or sleeping patients,
Determine how easily
They can be aroused.
If they cannot be aroused
By verbal stimuli, can
They be aroused by a pain
Stimulus like a pinch?
To voice, try pain.
ā¢ Respond to a light touch on the hand.
ā¢ Try to avoid pain.
When you ask, āCan you tell me where
You are hurt?ā is the CHIEF COMPLAINT.
Will be obvious, such as the patient
Who lies bleeding in the street
After being struck by an automobile.
It is useful to determine
What is bothering the patient most.
Feel the Head and Neck.
Check the Clavicles and Arms.
Check the Chest. In injury
Crackling beneath the skin.
The muscles tense.
Can cause great pain,
So be gentle.
Check the Feet, Ankles, and Legs.
3+ Normal
2+ Difficult to palpate
1+ Weak and rapid, thready
0 Absent
While going to the scene of an accident
Or to the hospital. Use a seat belt ā¦
Park safely and carefully.
Keep the interior clean.
Are all your bandage wraps cleaned up?
About the patientās condition, assume
The worst and work from there.
That you pray with him, do so.
Files Suit? [How to document:]
Through an error.
Never erase an error.
Is death. If a person is obviously
Dead (crushed, decapitated,
Rigor mortis setting in),
You may be required
To leave the body at the site.
On the scene or in the ambulance,
Be supportive and reassuring
To the patient, but do not lie.
With something like, āYou
Have some very serious injuries,
Table of contents
- Dedication
- Contents
- Dash It
- Mornings Like This
- The Handy Boy
- The Pathfinder of the Seas
- The Sign of Your Father
- An Acquaintance in the Heavens
- I Am Trying to Get at Something Utterly: Heartbroken
- The Hunter
- Observations and Experiments
- The Child in Spring
- Class Notes on Painting and the Arts
- Mayakovsky in New York
- Light in the Open Air
- Stars
- Junior High School English
- Signals at Sea
- Emergencies
- A Letter to Theo
- Language for Everyone
- The Old Masters
- Otherwise It Would Be Too Confusing
- A Visit to the Mayo Clinic
- We Already Know You Like Baseball
- The Muse and the Poet
- The Graduate Student: Aspects of the Tongue
- A Natural History of Getting Through the Year
- A View of Certain Wonderful Effects
- Getting Started
- From a Letter Home
- Learning to Fear Watercolor
- Index of First Lines
- I Think Continually of Those Who Went Truly Ape
- Building a Tree House
- Attempt to Move
- How to Make a Visit to The Netherlands
- The Writing Life
- Pastoral
- The Naturalist at Large on the Delaware River
- Deathbeds
- Authorās Note
- Books by Annie Dillard
- Copyright
- About the Publisher