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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454140303321

Autore

Hughey Elizabeth

Titolo

Sunday houses the Sunday house [[electronic resource] /] / Elizabeth Hughey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2007

ISBN

1-58729-726-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (69 p.)

Collana

Iowa Poetry Prize

Disciplina

813/.6

Soggetti

American poetry - 21st century

American literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize".

Nota di contenuto

Contents; One; South; Veronica; The Naming of 1500; How Much Longer; The Long Hello; Tied for Impiety; Good Night '73; No One Need Invite the Ant; Housewife; Two Can Play; Sunday Houses the Sunday House; A Textbook of General Botany; To Be Scattered across the Lawn; Two; What Bird; Egg, Egg; The Architect and the Engineer: A Telephone Play; This Time I Draw Him with My Eyes Closed; Lit through the Night; A One and A; Veronica; My Party; Country Song; Happiest Hours; Long Playing Record; Work Poem; Western Addition; Hawthorne Effect; Son on a Hill; Hailstorm; Three

Subjects Not Suitable for Autofocus, Fuji Instruction Manual: Love, by Guy De MaupassantWarnings To Be Heeded; Squares and Promenades; Thought Police; Afternoon; How Do We Know the Blood; Son at the Swimming Pool; Swamp Cache; Heavenly Bodies Go in Curves; Look Skyward in Coastal Counties; Intersection of Oak and Linden; Not To Mention the Trees Coming up To My Waist; Veronica; Dogwood, David, Dogwood; Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

In Sunday Houses the Sunday House, Elizabeth Hughey embraces the possibility that we can learn as much from objects as we can from other people, from the inanimate as much as the animate. Each poem descends upon a place and a time, takes a few notes, and then leaves quietly without slamming any doors. Sunday Houses the Sunday House reveals what the world is like when your attention is focused elsewhere,



when your head is turned the other way.