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The Glass Hammer: A Southern Childhood

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by: Andrew Hudgins See Larger Image Price: $24.53 as of 03/13/2010 04:01 EST Used Price: $6.49 Third Party New Price: $24.53 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54 EAN: 9780395700105 ISBN: 0395700108 Label: Mariner Books Manufacturer: Mariner Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 97 Publication Date: July 19, 1995 Publisher: Mariner Books Studio: Mariner Books Related Items: Ecstatic in the Poison Babylon in a Jar: Poems Magic City (Wesleyan Poetry) Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft NEVER-ENDING CL see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The Glass Hammer, the fourth book of poems by the celebrated author of After the Lost War, is a southern narrative poem. It tells the story of a boy brought up in a military family in Texas and Alabama, and it is as rich in emotion and experience as any novel, as family life itself. In a sequence of sixty-five short lyrics, the narrator moves from the anecdotal circumstances of his infancy to the rebellions of his youth and adolescence, from the tragedy of his mother's death to the acceptance of his father's disciplinary love. This sequence of poems is human, solid, passionate, rueful, and eminently readable. It is as transparent as a mountain brook and moves as fast. It is as painful and powerful and surprising as first love and first loss. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - sublime Hudgins is a great poet, and this is a great example of good metrical poetry (or good poetry of any kind) as well as a great example of a poetic memoir (or a memoir of any kind). Hudgins is a dark, elegant poet haunted by his past and his religion. I highly recommend this book. Rating: - My Favorite I picked up Andrew Hudgins' "Glass Hammer" some years ago in a used book store, and since then, it's been one book of poetry I've returned to again and again and again. So much colorful memoir neatly packed into a scant 100 pages of gritty, downscale family history. To some extent, it reminds me of Joe Brainard's skeletal, "I Remember," but with a satisfying amount meat and potatoes on its bones. Though I wasn't raised in the South, Hudgin's childhood experiences are reminiscent of my own in a non ... Read More

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