{"product_id":"all-odd-and-splendid-9781496228178","title":"All Odd and Splendid","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of poems is an exploration of lives and selves transformed by choice and by chance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eAll Odd and Splendid\u003c\/i\u003e] is about how life looks and feels when fundamental categories of being have come unmoored. . . . A life as the mother of a daughter becomes [Raz’s] life as the mother of a son. Rather than mending this rip in the fabric of her existence, Raz magnifies it, turning gender’s failure to stabilize identity into a principle of representation.”—Joy Ladin, the \u003ci\u003eForward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“‘Why have I come \/ to arbitrary limits?’ asks Hilda Raz, provocatively, in this stunning . . . collection of poems that tests the generative potential of language and discovers its power to reinvent us. Narratives are stretched, bodies transformed, and deaths defied—all in the miracle that is this poet’s unyielding will to speak truth.”—Raphael Campo, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hilda Raz’s \u003ci\u003eAll Odd and Splendid\u003c\/i\u003e is unique, accomplished, and turns the ‘genderings’ of the world upside down, as they need be turned upside down. The poems are psychologically innovative and deft. There are tones of a masterpiece in this work.”—John Kinsella, author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Arcadia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[This is] a gentle quotidian view of the world that then twists toward the sardonic\/tragic; or else a steady drumbeat of hard life, out of which happiness and beauty flower.”—Janet  Burroway, author of \u003ci\u003eWriting Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The poems evoke a sense of outreach, a powerful awareness of connection and need to care for one another. By example, Raz shows the importance of trying hard to understand others in all their strangeness.”—Floyd Skloot, author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. History: Everyone today looked remarkable\u003cbr\u003e Vocation\u003cbr\u003e Diaspora\u003cbr\u003e Childhood\u003cbr\u003e Water Ceremonies\u003cbr\u003e All Odd and Splendid\u003cbr\u003e Wilt\u003cbr\u003e Son\u003cbr\u003e He Graduates from Clown School\u003cbr\u003e He\/She: The Bike\u003cbr\u003e Credo\u003cbr\u003e Spring Snowstorm\u003cbr\u003e Dante's Words\u003cbr\u003e Sunday Morning, without Couplet\u003cbr\u003e Tyr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e II. The Transfer of Power: So absolute and immutable\u003cbr\u003e Once\u003cbr\u003e Storm\u003cbr\u003e The Transfer of Power\u003cbr\u003e An Evening\u003cbr\u003e Infant, in New York\u003cbr\u003e Visit\u003cbr\u003e Four\/Two\u003cbr\u003e Eva Unwraps a Bandaid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e III. War: Button, feather, tassel or stripe\u003cbr\u003e Complaint\u003cbr\u003e Flight\u003cbr\u003e The Public Baths\u003cbr\u003e Pets\u003cbr\u003e September 11\u003cbr\u003e Fire Should Be Measured by What Didn't Burn\u003cbr\u003e Paper Strip\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e IV. Seeing the Changes\u003cbr\u003e Arousal\u003cbr\u003e Coma\u003cbr\u003e A Friend\u003cbr\u003e Her Dream\u003cbr\u003e Objects When the Body Fails\u003cbr\u003e Beloved, 24\u003cbr\u003e Funeral, then Flu\u003cbr\u003e Suite\u003cbr\u003e The Changes\u003cbr\u003e A Body of Water\u003cbr\u003e Elegy for Two Poets\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e V. The Especial Shape\u003cbr\u003e 2 A.M. Migraine\u003cbr\u003e Moving Pictures\u003cbr\u003e Dark Haired, Dark Eyed, Fierce\u003cbr\u003e Professional Travel\u003cbr\u003e Alice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VI. All Odd and Splendid\u003cbr\u003e Terza Rima\u003cbr\u003e Now\u003cbr\u003e Tenor Part\u003cbr\u003e Splendid\u003cbr\u003e Love This\u003cbr\u003e Thank You Very Much\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Credits and Acknowledgments","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409237516631,"sku":"9781496228178","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496228178.jpg?v=1730506088","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/all-odd-and-splendid-9781496228178","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}