Field Guide Robert Hass, Hass; Stanley Kunitz, Kunitz
10/2019
eBook
The Winning volume in the 1972 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is a collection of richly anecdotal, lyric poems. Robert Hass writes about the California coast, about birds, fish, books, ...friends, presents sensations, and the impingements of the past upon the present. Running through the book is a core of love poems, mainly domestic, which muse on the natural order that the affections try to establish even within the wilderness of history and political violence. Stanley Kunitz, the judge of the competition, calls this year's selection "a big, strong-hearted, earthy book, in the America epic tradition of Whitman and Neruda. Hass is a wonderfully informed young man, a waking history, with abounding affection for the natural universe, including some humans, and with an imagination that spans the whole continent, from Buffalo to the Pacific.†?
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3 collects 601 letters, covering 1929-1936. The letters chronicle Frost's negotiation of life as a public figure and as the head of a family enduring tragedy. ...Fully annotated and accompanied by biographical material, the letters reveal the mind of an artist at the height of his powers.
Pensive, mercurial, and often funny, the private Robert Frost remains less appreciated than the public poet. The Letters of Robert Frost, the first major edition of the correspondence of this complex ...and subtle verbal artist, includes hundreds of unpublished letters whose literary interest is on a par with Dickinson, Lowell, and Beckett.
The second installment of Harvard's critically acclaimed five-volume edition of Robert Frost's correspondence contains letters from 1920 to 1928, 400 of them gathered here for the first time. His 160 ...correspondents include family, friends, colleagues, fellow writers, visual artists, publishers, educators, librarians, farmers, and admirers.
Objectives
To assess the feasibility and effectiveness of text messaging to increase outpatient care engagement and medication adherence in an urban homeless population in Boston.
Methods
Between ...July 2017 and April 2018, 62 patients from a clinic serving a homeless population were sent automated text messages for four months. Messages were either appointment reminders and medication adherence suggestions (intervention group) or general health promotion messages (control group). Medical records were reviewed to evaluate appointment keeping, emergency room (ER) use, and hospitalizations. Pre- and post-surveys were administered to measure self-reported medication adherence.
Results
No significant differences were found in inpatient or outpatient care between the intervention and control groups, though differences in no-show rates and medication adherence approached significance. Appointment no-show rates were 21.0% vs. 30.6% (p = 0.08) for intervention and control, respectively, and rates of completed appointments were 65.8% vs. 56.7% (p = 0.12). Mean ER visits were 3.86 vs 2.33 (p = 0.16) for intervention and control groups, and mean inpatient admissions were 0.6 versus 1.24 (p = 0.42). Self-reported medication adherence increased from 8.27 to 9.84 in intervention participants, compared to an increase from 8.27 to 8.68 in control participants (p = 0.07), on a 1–11 scale.
Conclusions
Text messaging showed the potential to improve patient engagement in care and medication adherence in an urban homeless population (findings approaching but not achieving statistical significance). Work is needed to enhance the effectiveness of text-messaging interventions, which may involve increasing ease of use for mobile phones and texting apps, and addressing high rates of phone theft and loss.
