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The Safety of Small Things : Poems / Jane Hicks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hicks, Jane, 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- English poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (104 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : Fireside Industries, [2024]
- Summary:
- The Safety of Small Things meditates on mortality from a revealing perspective. Images of stark examination rooms, the ravages of chemotherapy, biopsies, and gel-soaked towels entwine with remembrance to reveal grace and even beauty where they are least expected. Jane Hicks captures contemporary Appalachia in all of its complexities: the world she presents constantly demonstrates how the past and the present (and even the future) mingle unexpectedly. The poems in this powerful collection juxtapose the splendor and revelation of nature and science, the circle of life, how family and memory give honor to those we've lost, and how they can all fit together. This lyrical and contemplative yet provocative collection sings a song of lucidity, redemption, and celebration.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Into Night
- I
- The Unseen
- Spotlight
- Safe Route
- Abscission
- PTSD
- Birthday, 1956
- Shine
- The Dark
- Agent of Providence
- Caesura
- Mam Recounts Family History
- This Morning, in the Mist
- The Time I Stole
- Dancing in the Stars
- Pocket Money
- Night Music
- Ode on an Onion
- Persimmons
- II
- Notes from the Forgotten Year
- Closed Hold
- Shadows
- Lair
- What I Learned
- Mississippi, 1964
- Haiku
- Take This Leaf
- Longing
- Jack Higgs Walks Alone at Hindman
- Kept Things
- Persist
- Pyburn Creek
- Safety of Small Things
- Follow
- After Chemo #2
- Neophyte
- Tobacco
- An East Tennessee Parking Lot
- III
- Remnants of a Saving Life
- Communion
- Drawn
- Cumberland Gap above the Furnace
- The Farmer's Son Begs Relief
- Changeling
- Eclipse
- Solstice
- Bird Boy
- Walking the Wilderness Road at Cumberland Gap
- Buick Reverie
- Menagerie
- First Morning
- Acknowledgments
- Publications.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hicks, Jane The Safety of Small Things
- ISBN:
- 9781950564385
- 195056438X
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