House and Fire - (Apr Honickman 1st Book Prize) by Maria Hummel (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>House and Fire</i> is the 2013 winner of the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize, chosen by Fanny Howe.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A child is very ill; there is a hospital. . . . The subject is as basic as a bowl and a nail, wood and a house, and a house on fire. --Fanny Howe, from the introduction</p><p><i>House and Fire</i> is a mother's love song to her stricken young son, written over the years of his hospitalizations for an acute immune disorder. Maria Hummel is a poet of dazzling formal mastery, whose eerie, radiant lyrics and stories evoke the pediatric ward, California life, and the immortal, endangered world of childhood. This unforgettable debut was selected by Fanny Howe.</p><p><b>From House and Fire: </b></p><p><i>for thirty-three years</i></p><p><i>I didn't make anything</i></p><p><i>with my body</i></p><p><i>and thenyour brother</i></p><p><i>and thenhe sickened</i></p><p><i>watching him sleephooked to tubes</i></p><p><i>an empty envelopeinside me</i></p><p><i>fills each dawnwith one long love letter</i></p><p><i>by night</i></p><p><i>it's mostly apology</i></p><p>A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, <b>Maria Hummel</b> is the author of two novels and poetry and prose in <i>Poetry</i>, <i>Narrative</i>, and <i>The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine</i>. She teaches at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco, California.</p><p><b>Fanny Howe</b> has written many books of poetry, and her <i>Selected Poems</i> (UC Press, 2000) won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Maria Hummel: A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, Maria Hummel is the author of two novels, and poetry and prose in <i>Poetry, Narrative, The Missouri Review, Pushcart Prizes XXXVI, </i> and <i>The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine</i>. She teaches at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco. <p/>Fanny Howe: Fanny Howe has written many books of poetry, and her <i>Selected Poems</i>(UC Press, 2000) won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. In 2009 she received and Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award from the Poetry Foundation.
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