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Many-storied house : poems / George Ella Lyon.
Van Pelt Library PS3562.Y4454 A6 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lyon, George Ella, 1949-
- Series:
- Kentucky voices
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Poetry.
- Families.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 121 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2013]
- Summary:
- Born in the small, eastern Kentucky coal-mining town of Harlan, George Ella Lyon began her career with Mountain, a chapbook of poems. She has since published many more books in multiple genres and for readers of all ages, but poetry remains at the heart of her work. Many-Storied House is her fifth collection. While teaching aspiring writers, Lyon asked her students to write a poem based on memories rooted in a house where they had lived. Working on the assignment herself, Lyon began a personal journey, writing many poems for each room. In this intimate book, she strives to answer lingering questions about herself and her family: "Here I stand, at the beginning," she writes in the opening lines of the volume, "with more questions than / answers." Collectively, the poems tell the sixty-eight-year-long story of the house, beginning with its construction by Lyon's grandfather and culminating with the poet's memories of bidding farewell to it after her mother's death. Moving, provocative, and heartfelt, Lyon's poetic excavations evoke more than just stock and stone; they explore the nature of memory and relationships, as well as the innermost architecture of love, family, and community. A poignant memoir in poems, Many-Storied House is a personal and revealing addition to George Ella Lyon's body of work.
- Contents:
- Downstairs
- Entry
- Door 7
- Bathroom 8
- Closet 10
- Passage 11
- Living Room
- That Chair 12
- Art 14
- Visitor 15
- Dining Room
- Money Laundering 16
- Oh, My 18
- Ritual 19
- Collector's Item 20
- Phone 21
- August 4, 1944 22
- Kitchen
- Reveille 23
- Blood and Water 24
- The Radio 25
- Legacy 26
- Junk Drawer 27
- Vision 28
- Over Coffee 29
- Daddy's Last Christmas 30
- Kitchen Table 31
- Basement
- What Won't Burn 32
- Bucket Brigade 33
- Garage
- The Ham 35
- New Room 36
- Flood
- It Got Us This Time 41
- No Light 43
- Worst Flood in Harlan County History 44
- Interim 46
- Threshold 47
- Upstairs
- Stairway
- Landing 51
- Library
- On Those Shelves 52
- Interior Design 53
- Portrait 55
- Smithereens 56
- Memory Book 58
- It Was a Year 60
- This Is 61
- Shit 62
- [Untitled] 63
- Hall
- By the Laundry Hamper 64
- Linen Closet 66
- My Room
- Toy Chest 67
- Hiding 68
- Doll Mother 69
- Night of the Mysteries 70
- Brother's Room
- Off Limits 73
- How It Smelled 74
- Sleepless 75
- Parents' Room
- Arthritis, 1952 77
- The Photo of Granny Buby 78
- November 21, 1963 80
- Half 81
- With a Song in His Heart 82
- Bathroom
- Sanctus 84
- Company 86
- Cliff 88
- Yard
- D-Day 93
- Westward Ho 95
- At Play 96
- All of It
- Postgraduate Work 99
- It Doesn't Matter 100
- In the ER 101
- On Her Side 103
- Final Play 105
- Labor 106
- Every Cupboard Bare, Every Head Bowed 107
- Thanksgiving Night 109
- The Day After 110
- I Can't Believe 112
- Welcome 114.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813142616
- 081314261X
- OCLC:
- 837180246
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