What Happens
Poems
Published on 1. April 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
138 pages
978-1-4962-2818-5 (ISBN)
Description
In What Happens these musically wrought and emotionally candid poems explore the pleasure and pain of family relationships, the complicated joy of being a woman, and the unconventional beauty of the Great Plains. Readers will meet Raz's son, Aaron, and find themselves drawn to fundamental questions about identity and belonging.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lincoln
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4962-2818-5 (9781496228185)
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04/2021
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University of Nebraska Press
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Hilda Raz
What Happens
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06/2009
University of Nebraska Press
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Person
Hilda Raz is a former editor of Prairie Schooner and is the founding director of the Prairie Schooner Book Prizes. She was named the first Luschei Professor and Editor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Raz is editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at the University of New Mexico Press and poetry editor for ABQ (in)Print and Bosque Press. She is the author or editor of fourteen books, including her most recent book, Letter from a Place I've Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986-2020, as well as All Odd and Splendid, Divine Honors, Trans, and What Becomes You (with Aaron Raz Link), all available from the University of Nebraska Press.
Content
Preface
Part One
That’s Something
Jan’s Orchard
What Happens
Diction
The Sandhills, Early Winter
November Night Driving
Birthday
Sarah’s Wing
Conversation
My Daughter Home from College Tells Me about the Gods
April Teaching, Outstate
Native
Locus
Accident
Photograph of a Child Sleeping
Visions
Words
Town/County
Part Two
Dishes
What Happened This Summer
Saying Good-bye to the Property
Divorce
Shame, or the Computer Uses of Natural Language
1 September, 100 Degrees
Trying to Buy off Death
I Can’t. Yes, You Can
Worry about Meaning
Cradle
Family
Piecing
Plate xii
Assignment
Three Ways of Looking at It
Part Three
Gossip
Father
Women Raised in the Fifties
She
What Is Good
Lot’s Wives
Widow
Visitant
Some Other Women Now
I Am Sick
Part Four
Piecing the Universe Together with Dresses
She Speaks
Detail
Oracle
Pregnant Woman
Sabbath
Small Shelter
Pain
A Meeting with My Ex-Husband
High Ground
With Stanley Kunitz at the Car Wash
Part Five
Advice
Restraint
Journal Entry: The Tropics
Friend in a Distant City
Sex
Alone
Look
Lacunae
C3
Ambition
Helios at Bread Loaf, the Album
The Man
My Dream, Your Dream
September: Getting Married Again
Prospectus
Atonement
Bear
Version
Inside the Geese
Life Outside the Self: The Uncertainty Principle
Acknowledgments
Part One
That’s Something
Jan’s Orchard
What Happens
Diction
The Sandhills, Early Winter
November Night Driving
Birthday
Sarah’s Wing
Conversation
My Daughter Home from College Tells Me about the Gods
April Teaching, Outstate
Native
Locus
Accident
Photograph of a Child Sleeping
Visions
Words
Town/County
Part Two
Dishes
What Happened This Summer
Saying Good-bye to the Property
Divorce
Shame, or the Computer Uses of Natural Language
1 September, 100 Degrees
Trying to Buy off Death
I Can’t. Yes, You Can
Worry about Meaning
Cradle
Family
Piecing
Plate xii
Assignment
Three Ways of Looking at It
Part Three
Gossip
Father
Women Raised in the Fifties
She
What Is Good
Lot’s Wives
Widow
Visitant
Some Other Women Now
I Am Sick
Part Four
Piecing the Universe Together with Dresses
She Speaks
Detail
Oracle
Pregnant Woman
Sabbath
Small Shelter
Pain
A Meeting with My Ex-Husband
High Ground
With Stanley Kunitz at the Car Wash
Part Five
Advice
Restraint
Journal Entry: The Tropics
Friend in a Distant City
Sex
Alone
Look
Lacunae
C3
Ambition
Helios at Bread Loaf, the Album
The Man
My Dream, Your Dream
September: Getting Married Again
Prospectus
Atonement
Bear
Version
Inside the Geese
Life Outside the Self: The Uncertainty Principle
Acknowledgments