An ordinary life : poems / B.H. Fairchild.
| Author/creator | Fairchild, B. H. author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2023] |
| Copyright Date | ©2023 |
| Description | 70 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: Welder -- On the Sorrow God Pours into the Little Boat of Life -- Poem Beginning with a Rejected Line by W. H. Auden -- My Mother, on Horseback, in a Blizzard -- Often the Dying Ask for a Map -- Milk and Cookies: The County Seat Wars -- Ornithology -- Allegory -- What He Said, What She Said -- Black Friday -- The Water Ballet -- At a Meeting of Scholars I Think of Aunt Bea -- My Room Number Is Written in Braille -- Kimonos -- Revenge -- Benny Goodman -- The Watchmaker in the Rue Dauphine -- Home -- Seven Prose Poems from the Journals of Roy Eldridge Garcia The Hat -- The Glass Children -- Prophecy -- Mario -- A Small Town in Kansas -- Spatula -- The Meeting of the Board -- Inward -- Groceries -- The First Word -- For Junior Gilliam (1918 -- 1978) -- My Father, Fighting the Fascists in WWII -- Two Sonnets -- An Ordinary Life. |
| Abstract | "In this stirring volume, award-winning poet B. H. Fairchild seeks the ironic, haunting presence imbuing each ordinary life with beauty, power, and meaning. By turns polyphonic and deeply personal, these poems range from Kansas highways and sunbaked baseball fields to secondhand memories of a World War II foxhole. They zoom in on a welder's truck, a Walmart on Black Friday, and a record store, where a chance encounter offers radiant kindness in the face of grief. In a suite of prose poems written in the returning persona of the machinist and philosopher Roy Eldridge Garcia, "a watcher of things," Fairchild finds sacred meaning in domestic scenes and expansive imagined narratives. Throughout, the poet evokes the brutal beauty of the American heartland, a morning's "sheet-metal sky" and a grandfather's farm, with its "dusty creek, damp / only when the winter wheat was bogged / in snow.""--Amazon. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781324036869 |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| ISBN | 1324036850 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781324036852 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ePub ebook) |