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My friend Victor took photo of my favorite book review of Marina Serrano, "Training Hospital," published in NEXUS
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Marina Serrano
Let
Training Hospital in Love, 2006.
96 pages / Poetry
$ 25
By Lorena M. Curruhinca
Serrano began his book with verses: "In a hospital a child with anencephaly live, / The strange thing is the word live." The poem ends by telling the doctor's decision not to revive the boy if he goes on strike again and the poet announces the question: "(Do you ever revive?)." It's that raw and intimate, throw the question bouncing on ourselves and make it his own.
So, Marina, becomes a poetic chronicle their way through several hospitals as a student of kinesiology. Converts that movement, that stroll through the horror and pain of patients in the testimony of someone who does not use the facility to show the tragic self-learning-foiled be hardened to the inevitability of death: the finding of lack of power in situations where no action to heal, the personal limit to death "(if there is an entity called death / and occupies a volume) ". Even with all this, Serrano's poetry comes not only about the transfer and because he shares his view of reality in a way that we do not expect an individual role establecidamente kept away and even some immunity and custom to the disease itself, but because it records its own dynamics and provides us with courage and suffering: "And the medicine man was / ate my faith."