Hospital Poems

<p>Inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care exists within the hermetically sealed white space pressing in on the poems in Nancy Dunlop's deeply moving chapbook Hospital Poems. The impact? No extraneous words no lines that edge out too far no stanzas that speak a little too long. Any persona between you and the author is stripped away as well no games no antics no masks only the author speaking directly from somewhere close to the bone. After reading a few poems you'll realize you've been holding your breath the poems are this taut. </p><p>-Suzette Marie Bishop Jaguar's Book of the Dead</p>