Hometown for an Hour: Poems (Hollis Summers Poetry Prize) (Signed First Edition)

Jennifer Rose

ISBN 10: 0821416553 / ISBN 13: 9780821416556

Published by Ohio University Press, Athens, 2006

About this Item

First printing, with full number line. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy, in an unclipped jacket. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. This copy has been SIGNED and warmly inscribed by Rose on the title page (as pictured). Poetry-Rear. Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-2716

Bibliographic Details

Title: Hometown for an Hour: Poems (Hollis Summers ...

Publisher: Ohio University Press, Athens

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Winner of the 2005 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
Winner of the 2007 Audre Lorde Award

In her second collection of poems, Jennifer Rose writes primarily of places and displacement. Using the postcard’s conventions of brevity, immediacy, and, in some instances, humor, these poems are greetings from destinations as disparate as Cape Cod, Kentuckiana, and Croatia. Rich in imagery, deftly crafted, and imbued with a lightness of voice, these poems are also postmarked from poetry’s more familiar provinces of love, nature, and loss.

About the Author:

Jennifer Rose is the author of The Old Direction of Heaven (2000) and the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Poetry Society of America, among others. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Nation, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She lives in Waltham, Massachusetts, and works as a city planner specializing in downtown revitalization.

Jennifer's website: jennifer-rose.net