{"product_id":"_mostah","title":"The Most Potent Weapon, by Amy Haddad","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThe poems in Amy Haddad’s \u003cem\u003eThe Most Potent Weapon\u003c\/em\u003e read like “enlightenments from life on the road,” to borrow from Paul Theroux, for those who journey with an end-stage or chronic illness. With a rare insider’s view of the world of health care from the dual perspectives of nurse and patient, Haddad reveals courage, frailty, grace, and humor in poems grounded in clinical authenticity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThe chapbook examines everyday life that is filtered through a cancer diagnosis. The poems highlight metaphors commonly used to describe the divides between the ill and well including differences in language, war imagery, and expectations regarding feminine beauty in form and language that are at once subtle, relatable, clear, and often jarring. This chapbook is like a series of postcards along the way on a trip to a strange land in which Haddad bears witness to unexpected, and at times, unbearable experiences encountered there. Anyone on a similar trip will find a willing companion in the poems in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eAmy Haddad started her career as a nurse working in mental health settings, medical\/surgical nursing, and home care. Presently, she is a professor emerita at Creighton University. She is the author of the chapbook \u003cem\u003eThe Geography of Kitchens\u003c\/em\u003e (Finishing Line Press, 2021) and \u003cem\u003eAn Otherwise Healthy Woman\u003c\/em\u003e (Backwaters Press, 2022), that was a winner of the \u003cem\u003eAmerican Journal of Nursing\u003c\/em\u003e Book of the Year in 2022. Her poems have appeared in journals including: \u003cem\u003eAji Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePersimmon Tree\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDASH Literary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOberon Poetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIntima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMonths to Hours Poetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAnnals of Internal Medicine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBellevue Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGlimpse Poetry Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAbandoned Mine\u003c\/em\u003e. She and her husband live in a 100-year-old log cabin in the middle of a park in Omaha, Nebraska. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amy Haddad","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":50228091126075,"sku":"_MOSTAH","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":50228091158843,"sku":"_MOSTAHe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/potentfront.png?v=1744998400","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/_mostah","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}