Coulehan, Jack : The Man with Stars Inside Him

Literature Annotations

	On-Line Text and Audio
Genre	Poem
Keywords	Aging, Cancer, Death and Dying, Disease and Health, Doctor-Patient Relationship, Patient Experience, Physical Examination, Pneumonia, Time
Summary	During the physical examination of an elderly cancer patient, the doctor considers the tell-tale symptoms of pneumonia. While the patient is dying, the physician imagines that the symptoms represent the birth of a universe and that the patient is becoming a part of the galaxy.
Source	The Knitted Glove
Publisher	Nightshade
Edition	1991
Place Published	Troy, Maine
Alternate Source	Life on the Line
Alternate Publisher	Negative Capability
Alternate Edition	1992
Alternate Editors	Sue Brannan Walker & Rosaly Demaios Roffman
Place Published	Mobile, Ala.
Miscellaneous	Also published in Medicine Stone (Santa Barbara: Fithian Press, 2002)
Annotated by	Chen, Irene and Aull, Felice
Date of Entry	08/01/93
Last Revised	11/11/02