What Happens: Poems

In What Happens these musically wrought and emotionally candid poems explore the pleasure and pain of family relationships, the complicated joy of being a woman, and the unconventional beauty of the Great Plains. Readers will meet Raz's son, Aaron, and find themselves drawn to fundamental questions about identity and belonging.

Hilda Raz is a former editor of Prairie Schooner and is the founding director of the Prairie Schooner Book Prizes. She was named the first Luschei Professor and Editor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Raz is the poetry editor for the University of New Mexico Press, ABQ (in)Print, and Bosque Press. She is the author or editor of fourteen books, including her most recent book, Letter from a Place I've Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986-2020, as well as All Odd and Splendid, Divine Honors, Trans, and What Becomes You (with Aaron Raz Link), all available from the University of Nebraska Press.

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What Happens: Poems

In What Happens these musically wrought and emotionally candid poems explore the pleasure and pain of family relationships, the complicated joy of being a woman, and the unconventional beauty of the Great Plains. Readers will meet Raz's son, Aaron, and find themselves drawn to fundamental questions about identity and belonging.

Hilda Raz is a former editor of Prairie Schooner and is the founding director of the Prairie Schooner Book Prizes. She was named the first Luschei Professor and Editor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Raz is the poetry editor for the University of New Mexico Press, ABQ (in)Print, and Bosque Press. She is the author or editor of fourteen books, including her most recent book, Letter from a Place I've Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986-2020, as well as All Odd and Splendid, Divine Honors, Trans, and What Becomes You (with Aaron Raz Link), all available from the University of Nebraska Press.

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What Happens: Poems

What Happens: Poems

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What Happens: Poems

What Happens: Poems

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In What Happens these musically wrought and emotionally candid poems explore the pleasure and pain of family relationships, the complicated joy of being a woman, and the unconventional beauty of the Great Plains. Readers will meet Raz's son, Aaron, and find themselves drawn to fundamental questions about identity and belonging.

Hilda Raz is a former editor of Prairie Schooner and is the founding director of the Prairie Schooner Book Prizes. She was named the first Luschei Professor and Editor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Raz is the poetry editor for the University of New Mexico Press, ABQ (in)Print, and Bosque Press. She is the author or editor of fourteen books, including her most recent book, Letter from a Place I've Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986-2020, as well as All Odd and Splendid, Divine Honors, Trans, and What Becomes You (with Aaron Raz Link), all available from the University of Nebraska Press.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781496228185
Publisher: Nebraska
Publication date: 04/01/2021
Pages: 138
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hilda Raz is a former editor of Prairie Schooner and is the founding director of the Prairie Schooner Book Prizes. She was named the first Luschei Professor and Editor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Raz is the poetry editor for the University of New Mexico Press, ABQ (in)Print, and Bosque Press. She is the author or editor of fourteen books, including her most recent book, Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986–2020, as well as All Odd and Splendid, Divine Honors, Trans, and What Becomes You (with Aaron Raz Link), all available from the University of Nebraska Press.

Table of Contents

Preface
Part One
     That’s Something
     Jan’s Orchard
     What Happens
     Diction
     The Sandhills, Early Winter
     November Night Driving
     Birthday
     Sarah’s Wing
     Conversation
     My Daughter Home from College Tells Me about the Gods
     April Teaching, Outstate
     Native
     Locus
     Accident
     Photograph of a Child Sleeping
     Visions
     Words
     Town/County

Part Two
     Dishes
     What Happened This Summer
     Saying Good-bye to the Property
     Divorce
     Shame, or the Computer Uses of Natural Language
     1 September, 100 Degrees
     Trying to Buy off Death
     I Can’t. Yes, You Can
     Worry about Meaning
     Cradle
     Family
     Piecing
     Plate xii
     Assignment
     Three Ways of Looking at It

Part Three
     Gossip
     Father
     Women Raised in the Fifties
     She
     What Is Good
     Lot’s Wives
     Widow
     Visitant
     Some Other Women Now
     I Am Sick

Part Four
     Piecing the Universe Together with Dresses
     She Speaks
     Detail
     Oracle
     Pregnant Woman
     Sabbath
     Small Shelter
     Pain
     A Meeting with My Ex-Husband
     High Ground
     With Stanley Kunitz at the Car Wash

Part Five
     Advice
     Restraint
     Journal Entry: The Tropics
     Friend in a Distant City
     Sex
     Alone
     Look
     Lacunae
     C3
     Ambition
     Helios at Bread Loaf, the Album
     The Man
     My Dream, Your Dream
     September: Getting Married Again
     Prospectus
     Atonement
     Bear
     Version
     Inside the Geese
     Life Outside the Self: The Uncertainty Principle

Acknowledgments
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