House Without a Dreamer (Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize Library) - Softcover

Budy, Andrea Hollander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0934257833 ISBN 13: 9780934257831

Publisher: Story Line Press, 1993

Synopsis

Book is inscribed to Tim from author on front page, also signed to on title page. Very lean and tight condition. Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/4". No marks. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges are clean. NOT ex-library. All books offered from DSB are stocked at our store in Fayetteville, AR. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; ISBN: 0934257833. ISBN/EAN: 9780934257831. Inventory No: 024431.

About this title

From Booklist

This collection, winner of the 1993 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, might seem a natural in this age of family values, celebrating, as it does, house and home, parents and children, passion, love, and marriage. The poems go far beyond the surface of these matters, however, and, whether greeting the dawn or charting the progression of passion or funeral preparations, explore the subtle nuances of emotion. In "Dawn," Budy writes of this need to explore, discover, and experience the subtleties attending the delicate instant of change: "I've come dawn after dawn / to slow it down, to trap it. / I want to know what it is. / Not scientifically, / but with my whole body /. . . I have to know what it's like / the moment that ice is not ice anymore / but isn't yet water." These stark, stripped-down verses and images convey layers of complexity: "Passion / travels in the dark--the animal / we do not truly know, the one / we never pet, the one so foreign / to our lives we do not have a sense / of what it eats or where it sleeps, and only know / its death." These are poems for all seasons. Whitney Scott

Review

Advice
Asleep In The Forest
Because We Have Been Married A Long Time
Beginning And Ending With Lines From Shakespeare
Black
Buttons
Choice
The Color Of The Sky
Dawn
Fire
Firmly Married
Getting Back
Gretel
Grief
Jack Sprat
Just
The Line
No One Wants To Be The Witch
The Old Woman Who Lives In A Shoe
One For The Money
Permission
Pigs
Poem For My Brother, Manager Of Go-go Bar In Roselle Park, New Jersey
Snow White
Soup
Therapy
This
This Is An Answer
This Is Not A Letter But Another Poem
This Will Be My Only (1)
Trying To Explain: 1. The Field
Trying To Explain: 2. The Beach
Trying To Explain: 3. The Woods
Trying To Undrstand What Isn't Said
Weeds
What I Want
What I Will Be When I Cannot Be With You
What You Find
When She Named Fire
When You Hear His Name
Women At Fifty
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Story Line Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0934257833
• ISBN 13: 9780934257831
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 75