Paper-White Narcissus

Any Good Poem

Richard Berlin, MD, shares Lisel Mueller's poem "Paper-White Narcissus." Mueller began writing poetry in the 1950s and published her first collection in 1965. She received the National Book Award in 1981 and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1997.

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Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 25 years in the Psychiatric Times™ “Poetry of the Times” column. He is instructor in psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. His latest book is Freud on My Couch.