ASU poetry project aims to help health care workers de-stress amid pandemic
Sometimes, when you’re stretched to the limit and you think you can’t go on, all it takes to bring you back to a state of equilibrium is a calming voice and a little poetry.
Arizona State University English Professor Mark Lussier knows this well. For several years he has been researching the use of literature as medicine, and what his work, and the work of colleagues he has collaborated with along the way, has shown is that there is real evidence behind its efficacy.
Now, in the midst of a pandemic, Lussier and others are taking what they’ve learned about the healing power words can have for patients and turning it toward front-line health care workers. “Equipment for Living” is a series of videos in which ASU professors slowly and purposefully read aloud one of their favorite poems as the words scroll across a backdrop of soothing imagery think ASMR, but elevated.
Other leading actors who will be recording their favourite poems, sonnets or readings include Tim Bentinck (David Archer in The Archers), Caroline Quentin (Bridgerton) and Patricia Hodge (Miranda).
Jazz singer Barb Jungr has recorded two versions of ‘Black is the Colour of my True Love’s Hair’. The readings, selected by the actors, include The Way of Love: Corinthians 13; To Celia by Ben Jonson; The Owl and The Pussycat by Edward Lear; Wild Nights – Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson; Love’s Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare.
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