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"Richard Martin's poems bring us face to face with the grim reality faced every day in a hospital, any hospital. From nurse to doctor, chaplain to administrator to orderly, we see how hospital employees react to the circumstances of their work. But the center of this collection are the patients. Martin's series on mental patients and cancer patients are powerful and riveting and lead to the inevitable question which grows out of these poems: 'How can one man stand this work?' The answer lies in Martin's tough yet compassion stance"--