Bread without Sorrow

by Hodgen, John

• ISBN13: 9780899241128
• ISBN10: 0899241123
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-01
• Publisher: Lynx House Books

Summary

This winner of the Balcones Prize for Poetry contains poems of family, love, betrayal, belief, and profound speculation. It is a poetry of long, musical lines, astonishingly original metaphor, and clear and direct voice. This is a remarkably intimate and moving work. John Hodgenreceived a Bluestem Award for In My Father's Houseand was awarded the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. He lives in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Upon Hearing That Among Marilyn Monroe's Personal Effects Found After Her Death Was A Signed Photograph From Albert Einstein Inscribed With The Words "With Respect And Love And Thanks"	p. 13
Forgiving Buckner	p. 14
Stopping the Jesus	p. 15
This Day	p. 16
Procedure	p. 18
On Seeing My Wife Holding Onto Her Friend In A Parish Parking Lot, For Their Dear Lives And October Coming	p. 19
May 6th	p. 20
On Having Been Given My Father's Footlocker, And On Not Having Opened It for Six Months Now	p. 22
Above Half Moon Bay, Near San Francisco	p. 23
Father Superglues 5-Year-Old Daughter's Eyes	p. 25
Love Believed, Belayed	p. 26
Looking For Ophelia At The Former Site Of The Alice And The Hat Diner In Worcester, Massachusetts	p. 27
On Carrying My Mother's Cremated Remains To Virginia Beach To Give To My Brother	p. 28
"It's All Over Now": Man Runs Into Texas Theatre Without Paying	p. 29
The Loudest Sound In The World	p. 35
My Father Swearing	p. 36
Dave The Guesser	p. 38
Room Service	p. 39
Jesus's Little Sister	p. 40
Waking My Father For the Graveyard Shift	p. 42
For A Friend, Gone For A Year To Galway	p. 44
Coming To Grief	p. 45
December	p. 46
Key West Cemetery, Mid-July, 2 p.m., Chance of Rain	p. 51
On Hearing A Young Husband's Testimony Before A Congressional Sub-Committee About The Manner In Which The FAA Crash Recovery Team Had Informed Him That They Had Found His Wife's Hand	p. 53
Getting Through	p. 55
On Noting That The Most Famous Loch Ness Monster Photograph Had Been Faked	p. 56
Garage	p. 57
Hanging On	p. 59
Seven Crows	p. 61
The City Of Rochester, August, Veiled Moon	p. 63
Letter To Katherine	p. 65
When The Cook Falls In Love	p. 66
The Girl Who Killed Her Mother Writes Me Letters	p. 67
Men, Upon Hearing Of A Death	p. 68
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