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Strict Economy of Fire
Poems
Häftad, 2004
252 kr
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On a pilgrimage to the Kingdom of Nepal, a group of American women trek into the Himalayas, beginning and ending in Kathmandu. They ascend, turn back just short of reaching their destination because of impassable snow, and descend. ""Say what you see,"" smoke rising on a distant mountain seems to …
Kitchen Heat
Poems
Häftad, 2006
284 kr
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Kitchen Heat records in woman's language the charm and bite of domestic life. Ava Leavell Haymon's poems form a collection of Household Tales, unswerving and unsentimental, serving up the strenuous intimacies, children, meals, pets, roused memories, outrages, and solaces of marriage and family. …
Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread
Poems
Häftad, 2010
252 kr
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In Ava Leavell Haymon's third collection, an unremarkable, harried, contemporary woman named Gretel finds herself at midlife overtaken by the Grimms' household tale Hansel and Gretel. The violence and terror in that story supplant the memory of her own childhood, and the fairy tale retells itself …
Mouths Open to Name Her
Poems
Av Katie Bickham, Ava Leavell Haymon
Häftad, 2019
268 kr
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Mouths Open to Name Her, Katie Bickham's dazzling new collection, resounds with the intensity of new motherhood and confronts the relationship between mothers and their children, as she explores what it means to carry a child, even one conceived by rape or ""a child born from no place, from the …
Grace of Distance
Poems
Av Matthew Thorburn, Ava Leavell Haymon
Häftad, 2019
268 kr
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In The Grace of Distance, his poignant, far-traveling new collection of poems, Matthew Thorburn explores the ways in which we try to close the distances we experience in modern life, between doubt and faith, between cultures, between ourselves and those we love. He seeks to name, and find, that …
Double Effect
Poems
Av Martha Serpas, Ava Leavell Haymon
Häftad, 2020
268 kr
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Martha Serpas's Double Effect reimagines Saint Thomas Aquinas's doctrine of that name, which governs whether an action is morally permissible despite a foreseeable evil result. In lush verse pointed by Cajun language, these poems measure the good that can result from destructive situations, …
Ordinary Psalms
Av Julia B. Levine, Ava Leavell Haymon
Häftad, 2021
284 kr
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Struggling to accept her impending blindness, the speaker in Julia B. Levine's fifth collection of poetry, Ordinary Psalms, asks everyday life to help her learn how to see beyond appearances into fundamental truths. As she contemplates the loss of one friend to cancer and another to suicide, along …
Our Lady of Bewilderment
Poems
Av Alison Pelegrin, Ava Leavell Haymon
Häftad, 2022
268 kr
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Whether by way of visitations from secular saints, hauntings from childhood, or back talk from "indelicate broads," a complicated world speaks to and through Alison Pelegrin in Our Lady of Bewilderment. An unusual blend of mystic-comedian, Pelegrin explores physical and psychic beauty and terror …
String
Av Matthew Thorburn, Ava Leavell Haymon m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
268 kr
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A book-length sequence of poems, Matthew Thorburn's String tells the story of a teenage boy's experiences in a time of war and its aftermath. He loses his family and friends, his home and the life he knew, but survives to tell his story. Written in the boy's fractured, echoing voice-in lines that …
For Today
Poems
Av Carolyn Hembree, Ava Leavell Haymon
Häftad, 2024
284 kr
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A revelatory collection of poems set in the Gulf South, Carolyn Hembree's For Today chronicles the experience of a woman who becomes a mother shortly after her father's death and struggles to raise her child amid private and public turmoil. Written in closed and nonce forms that give way to the …
