Description: These are poems by a doctor who cares for his patient's lives and struggles, and in the process explores the larger questions of living.... In HEART MURMURS, John Vanek visits lifes essential counties-Longing, Love, Lament- and there locates both faith and wonder. These are poems that search the heartland, and those who reside therein, for sense and constancy through language that both surprises and emboldens, poems that do not expect miracles but wish them for us all the same. -Lou Suarez, author of Ask