Piece by piece : selected prose / Rachel Hadas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hadas, Rachel, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xi, 221 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Paul Dry Books edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2021.

Summary:

From a Corfu classroom to an Accra art gallery to a spa in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, poet Rachel Hadas's prose ranges through space. Recalling a 1950's New York City childhood and long-departed parents, she reaches back in time. And since all the many-faceted work here engages with the world through texts, each piece overlaps with every other piece. Rich with a variety of connections in every essay or review, Piece by Piece is about books and about paying attention. It's about living.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Close to Home

Mater Sagax

Humble Herb Is Rival to Prozac

Classics

Talking to My Father

Lessons of Poetry

This Is What I Was Meant to Do

II. Storage and Retrieval

A Letter to J. D. Salinger

Waiting with Kipling

The Honors Student, the Plagiarist, and the Fan

Use a Brand-New Word Three Times

Through the Smoke of This One

Fabric in Ghana

One April Day

Vanishing in Plain Sight

The Trembling Web and the Storage Facility

III. Remembering The Future / Jessica Greenbaum

IV. Translations and Transitions

Takes on Arcadia

A Classroom in Corfu

Philotimo in the Beauty Parlor

The Truth of Two

Nakedness Is My End

White Polka Dots

Translated Objects

V. Poetic Knowledge

Don't Get Hysterical, Get Historical

-and Mythical

Poetic Knowledge

What Good Will This Knowledge Do You? Four Poets on Illness

An Ecstasy of Space

Subterranean Forces

Voices of Elders

Three Steps Down.

ISBN:

9781589881556

1589881559

OCLC:

1227087384