{"product_id":"9780971898127","title":"House and Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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 introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eHouse and Fire\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom \"House and Fire\":\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003efor thirty-three years\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eI didn't make anything\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003ewith my body\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eand thenyour brother\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eand thenhe sickened\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003ewatching him sleephooked to tubes\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003ean empty envelopeinside me\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003efills each dawnwith one long love letter\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eby night\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eit's mostly apology\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, \u003cb\u003eMaria Hummel\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two novels and poetry and prose in \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eNarrative\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eThe Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e . She teaches at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFanny Howe\u003c\/b\u003e has written many books of poetry, and her \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (UC Press, 2000) won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020667011312,"sku":"9780971898127","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780971898127_p0.jpg?v=1763880468","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780971898127","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}