Author: Julie ChoffelPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496241193
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Dear Wallace
Author: Julie ChoffelPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496241193
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Everybody's Jonesin' for Something
Author: Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496225325
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Antillia
Author: Henrietta GoodmanPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496236084
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
"This collection is haunted by the ghosts of memory, whom Henrietta Goodman treats with narky wit but also with grief, guilt, and love"--
Two Open Doors in a Field
Author: Sophie KlahrPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496232372
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Through sonnets and a long sequence, the poems of Two Open Doors in a Field are constructed with deliberate limitations, restlessly exploring place, desire, and spirituality.
Calyx
Author: Foxlogic, Fireweed
Author: Jennifer K. SweeneyPublisher: Backwaters Press
ISBN: 1496222695
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Jennifer K. Sweeney’s Foxlogic, Fireweed follows a lyrical sequence of five physical and emotional terrains—floodplain, coast, desert, suburbia, and mesa—braiding themes of nature, domesticity, isolation, and human relationships. These are poems of the earth’s wild heart, its searing mysteries, its hollows, and its species, poems of the complex domestic space, of before and after motherhood, gun terror, the election, of dislocation and home, and of how we circle toward and away from our centers. Sweeney is not afraid to take up the domestic and inner lives of women, a nuanced relationship with the natural world that feels female or even maternal, or a duty to keeping alive poetry’s big questions of transcendence, revelation, awe, and deep presence in the ordinary.
Long Rules
Author: Nathaniel PerryPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496229290
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
A book-length poem in six sections, Long Rules takes readers to five Trappist monasteries in the southeastern United States to consider the intersections of solitude, family, music, and landscape. Its lines unspool in a loose and echoing blank verse that investigates monastic rules, sunlight, Saint Basil, turnips, Thomas Merton, saddle-backed caterpillars, John Prine, fatherhood, and everything in between. Looking inside and outside the self, Perry asks, what, or whom, are we serving? Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, this essay in verse contemplates the meaning of solitude and its contemporary ramifications in a time of uncertainty.
Butterfly Nebula
Author: Laura Reece HoganPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496236106
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, this collection teems with creatures and cosmic phenomena that vivify and reveal our common struggle toward faith and identity.
Skin Memory
Author: John Sibley WilliamsPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1935218530
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
2020 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist in Poetry A stark, visceral collection of free verse and prose poetry, Skin Memory scours a wild landscape haunted by personal tragedy and the cruel consequences of human acts in search of tenderness and regeneration. In this book of daring and introspection, John Sibley Williams considers the capriciousness of youth, the terrifying loss of cultural identity and self-identity, and what it means to live in an imperfect world. He reveals each body as made up of all bodies, histories, and shared dreams of the future. In these poems absence can be held, the body’s dust is just dust, and though childhood is but a poorly edited memory and even our well-intentioned gestures tend toward ruin, Williams nonetheless says, “I’m pretty sure, everything within us says something beautiful.”
An Otherwise Healthy Woman
Author: Amy HaddadPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496231058
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
First Place in Creative Works from the American Journal of Nursing's Book of the Year Awards Second Place in Professional Issues from the American Journal of Nursing's Book of the Year Awards The poems in An Otherwise Healthy Woman delve into the complexity of modern health care, illness, and healing, offering an alternative narrative to heroics and miracles. Drawing on Amy Haddad's firsthand experiences as a nurse and patient, the poems in this collection teach us to take a moment to stop and acknowledge the longing for compassion in each of us, what ought to be the immediate human response to suffering. The poet isn't afraid to explore her own fears and failures or to find joy and humor in the many roles women play. An Otherwise Healthy Woman presents the intimate experiences of a nurse, the vulnerable perspective of a patient, and the lessons of caring for family.