Hometown for an Hour

Poems

Jennifer Rose

Publication Year: 2006

In this collection of poems, winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, 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. Chosen from hundreds of submissions, Hometown for an Hour, is the winner of the ninth Summers Poetry Prize. As final judge David Yezzi wrote:“Jennifer Rose's “postcards” arrive with news of a world receding-but for her evocative communiquésˆrapidly into the past. The poems serve to fix in time her transient locals, revealing not remote tourist destinations but the very places where the poet has been most alive. Rose's odd assortment of places, she tells us, have seduced her, just as reading her poems, with their elegant and muscular formal excellence, will most certainly seduce readers. Tempering nostalgia with wit and emotional immediacy with consummate musicianship and craft, these poems reconstruct a world that, in Rose's fine imagining of it, becomes not only hers but ours as well.” Poet and city planner Jennifer Rose has been a “Discovery”/ The Nation winner and the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Society of America, among others. Her previous collection, The Old Direction of Heaven, was published in 2000. She lives in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Published by: Ohio University Press

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E-ISBN-13: 9780821441954
Print-ISBN-13: 9780821416563

Publication Year: 2006

Hometown for an Hour

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Alton Bay Postcard

Evanston Postcard

Winter, Chicago

Lincoln Park Postcard

Corydon Postcard

Kentuckiana Postcards

Postcard to Robin in Kent, Ohio

Cape House

Cape Cod Postcard

Metaphors at Low Tide

Postcard from Herring Brook Road

Eastham Postcard

Sunken Meadow Postcard

Off-Season

Provincetown Postcard

East End Postcard

The Storm

Postcard from Herring Cove Beach

Route 1 Postcard

Menlo Park Postcard

Mt. San Angelo Postcard

Country Headache

Country Erotica

Country Holiday

Night Train

Victoriana

Southern Postcard

Gettysburg Postcard

Appomatox Postcard

Virginia Postcard

Lipik Postcard

Letter from Orahovica

Mostar Postcard

Hampstead Postcard

Washington, D.C., Postcard

Harvard Square Postcard

Back Bay Postcard

Bay State Road

Mackinac Island Postcard

Vermont Postcard

Niagara Falls Postcard

Buffalo Postcard

Delaware Park Postcard

Two Postcards from Forest Lawn Cemetery

Prairie Postcard

Lake Forest Postcard

Ragdale Postcard

Over

Maintenon Postcard

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