House and Fire

by Maria Hummel

Book Overview

"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

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. Maria Hummel is a poet of dazzling formal mastery, whose eerie, radiant lyrics and stories evoke the pediatric ward, California...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097189812X
• ISBN13: 9780971898127
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: American Poetry Review
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"