{"product_id":"house-and-fire-apr-honickman-1st-book-prize-9780971898127","title":"House and Fire Apr Honickman 1st Book Prize","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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\n\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\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom House and Fire:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003efor thirty-three years\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI didn''t make anything\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ewith my body\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eand thenyour brother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eand thenhe sickened\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ewatching him sleephooked to tubes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ean empty envelopeinside me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003efills each dawnwith one long love letter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eby night\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eit''s mostly apology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA former Wallace Stegne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The American Poetry Review","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359295734103,"sku":"9780971898127","price":16.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780971898127.jpg?v=1754124243","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/house-and-fire-apr-honickman-1st-book-prize-9780971898127","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}