House and Fire (APR Honickman 1st Book Prize)

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House and Fire (APR Honickman 1st Book Prize)

Written by Maria Hummel
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"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 introductionHouse 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 life, and the immortal, endangered world of childhood. This unforgettable debut was selected by Fanny Howe.From "House and Fire":for thirty-three yearsI didn't make anythingwith my bodyand thenyour brotherand thenhe sickenedwatching him sleephooked to tubesan empty envelopeinside mefills each dawnwith one long love letterby nightit's mostly apologyA former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, Maria Hummel is the author of two novels and poetry and prose in Poetry, Narrative, and The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine. She teaches at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco, California.Fanny Howe has written many books of poetry, and her Selected Poems (UC Press, 2000) won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

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Language Eng
Published October 15, 2013
ISBN 17465609
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Maria Hummel writes contemporary fiction and has always been fascinated by character-driven stories. They hold a degree in English Literature and previously worked as an editor before transitioning to writing their own books. Maria Hummel lives with their spouse and a very vocal rescue cat.

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Exceeded all my expectations. The author orchestrated a breathtaking finale. Truly a work of art. I am now a lifelong fan of this author.
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