The Diener: Poems

by Martha Serpas

The Diener investigates loss and healing, change and permanence, in a hospital trauma center and the eroding landscape of southern Louisiana. The diener himself, the morgue attendant who assists the dead in the interstice between the living world and the world beyond, is the person with whom Martha Serpas most identifies in this collection. As a part-time hospital chaplain, Serpas possesses keen insight into the despair and resolve of patients and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807159220
• ISBN13: 9780807159224
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.6"