The Six Hundred Pound Man

Coulehan, Jack

Primary Category: Literature / Poetry

Genre: Poetry

Annotated by:
Donley, Carol
  • Date of entry: May-08-1996
  • Last revised: Oct-06-2015

Summary

The extraordinary image of a six hundred pound man, spread across two beds, dying, whom the doctor might at first find to be grotesque, is transformed in the doctor's dream. In that dream he sees the man as the center of a ceremony in which healers "wrestle the souls of old bodies back to bones . . . back back to their beginnings." The doctor comes to realize that this "worthless and alien" body is beautiful.

Primary Source

First Photographs of Heaven

Publisher

Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

Place Published

Troy, Maine

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Troy, Maine

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Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

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Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

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