Hometown for an Hour: Poems

by Jennifer Rose

Ohio University Press, 2006
eISBN: 978-0-8214-4195-4 | Cloth: 978-0-8214-1655-6 | Paper: 978-0-8214-1656-3
Library of Congress Classification PS3568.O7632H66 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

In her second collection of poems, 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.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

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.

Jennifer’s website: jennifer-rose.net

REVIEWS

“Jennifer Rose’s ‘postcards’ arrive with news of a world receding—but for her evocative communiqués—rapidly 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. Rose’s 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 Rose’s fine imagining of it, becomes not only hers but ours as well.”—David Yezzi, final judge of the ninth Hollis Summers Poetry Prize

“A master of iambic speech rhythms, Rose brings a cadenced intimacy to her colloquial communiqués. 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.”—Women’s Review of Books

“Autobiographical elements lend tremendous emotional depth to the collection…. The power of this volume resides in small moments of perspective, revelation, and self-realization.”—The Bloomsbury Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
Alton Bay Postcard	000
Evanston Postcard	000
Winter, Chicago	000
Lincoln Park Postcard	000
Corydon Postcard	000
Kentuckiana Postcards	000
Postcard to Robin in Kent, Ohio	000
Cape House	000
Cape Cod Postcard	000
Metaphors at Low Tide	000
Postcard from Herring Brook Road	000
Eastham Postcard	000
Sunken Meadow Postcard	000
Off-Season	000
Provincetown Postcard	000
East End Postcard	000
The Storm	000
Postcard from Herring Cove Beach	000
Route 1 Postcard	000
Menlo Park Postcard	000
Mt. San Angelo Postcard	000
Country Headache	000
Country Erotica	000
Country Holiday	000
Night Train	000
Victoriana	000
Southern Postcard	000
Gettysburg Postcard	000
Appomatox Postcard	000
Virginia Postcard	000
Lipik Postcard	000
Letter from Orahovica	000
Mostar Postcard	000
Hampstead Postcard	000
Washington, D.C., Postcard	000
Harvard Square Postcard	000
Back Bay Postcard	000
Bay State Road	000
Mackinac Island Postcard	000
Vermont Postcard	000
Niagara Falls Postcard	000
Buffalo Postcard	000
Delaware Park Postcard	000
Two Postcards from Forest Lawn Cemetery	000
Prairie Postcard	000
Lake Forest Postcard	000
Ragdale Postcard	000
Over	000
Maintenon Postcard	000

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