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Hometown for an Hour Jennifer Rose

Hometown for an Hour By Jennifer Rose

Hometown for an Hour by Jennifer Rose


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In her second collection of poems, Jennifer Rose writes primarily of places and displacement. Using the postcards conventions of brevity, immediacy, and, in some instances, humor, these poems are greetings from destinations as disparate as Cape Cod, Kentuckiana, and Croatia.

Hometown for an Hour Summary

Hometown for an Hour: Poems by Jennifer Rose

In her second collection of poems, Jennifer Rose writes primarily of places and displacement. Using the postcards 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 poetrys more familiar provinces of love, nature, and loss.

Hometown for an Hour Reviews

Jennifer Roses postcards arrive with news of a world recedingbut for her evocative communiquesrapidly into the past. The poems serve to fix in time her transient locales, revealing not remote tourist destinations but the very places where the poet has been most alive. Roses odd assortment of places, she tells us, have seduced her, just as reading her poems, with their elegant and 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 Roses fine imagining of it, becomes not only hers but ours as well.
A master of iambic speech rhythms, Rose brings a cadenced intimacy to her colloquial communiques. Her sly wit and ear for satisfying rhymes and slant rhymes lend these poems a nimble brightness, even as they take on personal sorrow and historical tragedy.
Autobiographical elements lend tremendous emotional depth to the collection. The power of this volume resides in small moments of perspective, revelation, and self-realization.

About Jennifer Rose

Jennifer Rose is the author of The Old Direction of Heaven (2000) and the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Poetry Society of America, among others. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Nation, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She lives in Waltham, Massachusetts, and works as a city planner specializing in downtown revitalization. Jennifers website: jennifer-rose.net

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NPB9780821416556
9780821416556
0821416553
Hometown for an Hour: Poems by Jennifer Rose
New
Hardback
Ohio University Press
2006-01-15
72
Winner of Hollis Summers Poetry Prize 2005 Winner of Audre Lorde Award 2007
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