Description: An Ordinary Life by B.H. Fairchild A poet whose work is "a cause of celebration" (John Freeman, Boston Globe) reveals the extraordinary within the ordinary FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In this stirring volume, award-winning poet B. H. Fairchild seeks the ironic, haunting presence imbuing each ordinary life with beauty, power, and meaning. By turns polyphonic and deeply personal, these poems range from Kansas highways and sunbaked baseball fields to secondhand memories of a World War II foxhole. They zoom in on a welders truck, a Walmart on Black Friday, and a record store, where a chance encounter offers radiant kindness in the face of grief. In a suite of prose poems written in the returning persona of the machinist and philosopher Roy Eldridge Garcia, "a watcher of things," Fairchild finds sacred meaning in domestic scenes and expansive imagined narratives. Throughout, the poet evokes the brutal beauty of the American heartland, a mornings "sheet-metal sky" and a grandfathers farm, with its "dusty creek, damp / only when the winter wheat was bogged / in snow." Elevating blue-collar work and scenes from small towns in clear-eyed, reverent poetry, Fairchild proves himself once again "the American voice at its best: confident and conflicted, celebratory and melancholic" (New York Times). Author Biography B. H. Fairchild is the author of seven volumes of poetry, including The Blue Buick and Usher. A finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the William Carlos Williams Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Bobbitt National Prize, he lives in California. Review "With crisp imagery and declarative sentences, these poems suggest every life is extraordinary." -- The New York Times Book Review Details ISBN1324086440 Pages 72 Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781324086444 Format Paperback Subtitle Poems Country of Publication United States DEWEY 811.54 Audience General Publisher WW Norton & Co Publication Date 2024-11-08 Imprint WW Norton & Co Place of Publication New York Alternative 9781324036852 US Release Date 2024-11-08 ISBN-10 1324086440 UK Release Date 2024-11-08 Author B.H. Fairchild We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161486582;
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