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After Weeks and Weeks in the Intensive Care Unit: Sunybrook Hospital (A Gasp A Gasp), 1988

 Item — Oversize Folder: 45
Identifier: CC-23176-23614

Scope and Contents

The poem deals with the poet's experience in the Intensive Care Unit after being stabbed in the chest that punctured his lung in 1986 by a robber while he was driving a taxi cab. All four typings in this series dealing with the Intensive Care Unit experience have been framed together. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1988

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 page (typed, ink, handwriting, watercolor) in [frame (wood, plexiglas)]) ; 28 x 22 cm, in frame 68 x 54 x 5 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

hallway entranc

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, a gift of Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: Toronto, Canada : [Publisher not identified]. Nationality of creator: Canadian. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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