Sunday houses the Sunday house / Elizabeth Hughey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughey, Elizabeth.

Series:

Iowa Poetry Prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (69 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

"Winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize".

ISBN:

9781587297267

1587297264

OCLC:

646887524