McLaughlin, Lissa: Quit

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Quit by Lissa McLaughlin (Burning Deck, paperback) Publication Date: December 15, 2015 Publisher Marketing: Poetry. Women's Studies. Taut lines—fragments from a journal? a report o n hospice work?—seem to keep moving out of our grasp while at the same time bringing us closer to their subject, the elusive experience of the dying and their nurses. A grief worker at a hospice ponders how ordinary human failings: jealousy, fear, rigidity, the hunger of loneliness can overwhelm rewarding work. To the point of envying the dead for leaving it all behind. And yet how anything, even a lousy sandwich, can recall us to the pleasures of this world. Show more