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Subject(s)

• American poetry—21st century [Browse]

Author of introduction

Howe, Fanny [Browse]

Summary note

House and Fire is a mother’s love-song to her stricken young son, written over the years of his hospitalizations for an acute immune disorder. Hummel’s eerie, radiant lyrics and stories evoke the pediatric ward, California life, and the immortal, endangered world of childhood.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Station
• Cold war
• Changeling
• Ode on sleep
• Ghost traffic
• 714B
• The unicorn
• Alter
• Quiet hours
• Rounds
• Carousel, ten days after his third transfusion
• Ultrasound
• Puzzle
• There is a story
• What to say
• The tree
• At night, late, tar pit
• Strawberries
• Solstice
• Glass after glass
• New York selves: an elegy
• Dear sirs
• Twelve red seeds
• Cole's pacific electric buffet
• Immunology
• The angels
• One life
• A thousand faces
• Children's ward
• Sleep barnacle
• The first turn might be right one home
• I'm this many
• Unbinding
• Fog
• White houses
• Key.

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ISBN

• 097189812X
• 9780971898127

OCLC

829387219

RCP

H - S

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