The Other Life [Paperback]

Andrea Hollander Budy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2001

What can only be described as another amazing and beautifully written collection by Andrea Hollander Budy, this second book of poetry explores the intricacies of the family, the duality of a domestic and artistic life, the trying pain of illness, and the triumph of endurance, in precise lyrics and celebratory meditations.

Andrea Hollander Budy won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize for her first collection of poems, House Without a Dreamer, published by Story Line in 1993. She has received fellowships from the NEA, the Arkansas Arts Council, and both the Wesleyan and Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences. She lives and teaches in Mountain View, Arkansas.

Editorial Reviews

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Afterwards
As If For No Other Reason
Burning The Letters
Confessional Poet
Delta Flight 1152
An Explanation
Goodness
Gray
Happiness
History
How He Warmed Himself
How It Is Done
Hunter, Gatherer
The Hunters
In This Poem You Refuse To Speak
In Which Being Here Together Is Enough
Longing
Love Song Ending With A Line By Horace
May 29
My Father's Sweater
On The Other Side Of The World
The Other Life
The Other Side Of The Story
Part Of The Story
Pensioner, Leicester Square, London
Poem Written At Home While You Fly Over The Atlantic
Reading Aloud To My Mother
Spoken In A Voice That Could Be His Own
Storms
Those Summer Sundays
A Tree Like This One
A Way Of Speaking
What I Need It For
What It Is
What The Married Man Dreamed
What The Other Eye Sees
Why I Married Him
Woman And Husband
Wounded
Writing This Poem
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Story Line Press (January 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1885266987
• ISBN-13: 978-1885266989
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,199,964 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Poetry that cuts to the bone, January 23, 2001

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This review is from: The Other Life (Paperback)

This book works magic: there are moments, feelings, truths in life that we cannot speak of with words..because they fail to convey the depth, the heart of the matter...yet these poems move into the realm of the unspeakable and speak eloquently. In an age when we rush about with few of us reading poetry, we need more than ever what this book provides: poems for everyone. They are poems that speak about love, loss, belonging, yearning: the untrivial things that fill your mind between the drive from home to the supermarket, while waiting at a bus depot, or shampooing in the shower...the thoughts that form the true you. And though these poems are her easily readable verse, they strangely seem as though they could be your own because they say such vital, significant truths..cutting deep into your heart, the pit of your belly, the very bone of you...saying what you felt and understood (or came close to comprehending) but could never vocalize as she has. This is a book you will want to share, to give to those that you love because it is pure, timeless, and needed.