In this collection of poems, winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry
Prize, Jennifer Rose writes primarily of places and displacement.
Using the postcard's conventions of brevity, immediacy, and, in
some instances, humor, these poems are greetings from destinations
as disparate as Cape Cod, Kentuckiana, and Croatia. Rich in
imagery, deftly crafted, and imbued with a lightness of voice these
poems are also postmarked from poetry's more familiar provinces of
love, nature and loss. Chosen from hundreds of submissions,
Hometown for an Hour, is the winner of the ninth Summers Poetry
Prize. As final judge David Yezzi wrote: "Jennifer Rose's
"postcards" arrive with news of a world receding-but for her
evocative communiques DEGREESrapidly into the past. The poems serve
to fix in time her transient locals, revealing not remote tourist
destinations but the very places where the poet has been most
alive. Rose's odd assortment of places, she tells us, have seduced
her, just as reading her poems, with their elegant an muscular
formal excellence, will most certainly seduce readers. Tempering
nostalgia with wit and emotional immediacy with consummate
musicianship and craft, these poems reconstruct a world that, in
Rose's fine imagining of it, becomes not only hers but ours as
well." Poet and city planner Jennifer Rose has been a "Discovery"/
The Nation winner and the recipient of awards and fellowships from
the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Society of
America, among others. Her previous collection, The Old Direction
of Heaven, was published in 2000. She lives in Waltham,
Massachusetts.
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