Florence Nightingale's Lost Log

What strange mercy I sew with dull pins says Florence Nightingale in Bernadette McComishs fascinating new chapbook. In spare deadly accurate lines--a nurses work in Crimean winter is closing eyes/frozen open--McComish will show you the antipodes of the human condition: our capacity for suffering our ability to love in the face of horror and the silence at the heart of our lives. Florence Nightingales Lost Log is a brilliant achievement. -Dennis Nurkse Florence Nightingales Lost log is an imagined affair between historys most famous nurse and a soldier during the Crimean War. Nightingale unapologetically gave up romantic relationships to be in service of others. In these lost pages she reveals a longing and passion for connection if only in her mind.