{"product_id":"what-happens-9781496228185","title":"What Happens","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe musically wrought and emotionally candid poems explore the pleasure and pain of family relationships, the complicated joy of being a woman, and the unconventional beauty of the Great Plains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hilda Raz has an appetite for the pleasures of touch, sight, love; an openness to the wounds of life and the ‘common face’ of death; a capacity for language that captures the weather and the details of a place and time, a day, the changes of a lifetime. The poetry of \u003ci\u003eWhat Happens\u003c\/i\u003e mirrors ‘our great and perfect \/ need,’ along with myths, riddles, and ‘everything possible blooming.’”\u003cbr\u003e“Hilda Raz’s poetic diction is always immediate and direct, engaging the reader. She achieves special intensity in her depiction of the human body, its vulnerability, and its capacity for pleasure (see ‘Friend in a Distant City’ and ‘Pain’). Here is a poet at the height of her formidable powers to move and inspire.”—Robert Pack, author of \u003ci\u003eStill Here, Still Now\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“Underneath ‘ordinary stars and a late moon,’ extraordinary things happen to the people in Hilda Raz’s poems. Love transforms, bodies transform, health transforms, and looked at freshly, the things we thought we knew burst into strangeness. There is nothing like Raz’s charged, smart, profound, moving poems, so rich in both intellect and heart, so open and wise, provoked by the question ‘how can we live properly?’”—Floyd Skloot, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wink of the Zenith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“A moving, still fresh, collection of poetry.”—Linda Read Deeds, \u003ci\u003eNebraska Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“These are emotionally taut poems, created by the poet to share herself or, perhaps, her many selves with the world at her feet.”—Charles Stephen, \u003ci\u003eLincoln Journal Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Part One\u003cbr\u003e      That’s Something\u003cbr\u003e      Jan’s Orchard\u003cbr\u003e      What Happens\u003cbr\u003e      Diction\u003cbr\u003e      The Sandhills, Early Winter\u003cbr\u003e      November Night Driving\u003cbr\u003e      Birthday\u003cbr\u003e      Sarah’s Wing\u003cbr\u003e      Conversation\u003cbr\u003e      My Daughter Home from College Tells Me about the Gods\u003cbr\u003e      April Teaching, Outstate\u003cbr\u003e      Native\u003cbr\u003e      Locus\u003cbr\u003e      Accident\u003cbr\u003e      Photograph of a Child Sleeping\u003cbr\u003e      Visions\u003cbr\u003e      Words\u003cbr\u003e      Town\/County\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Two\u003cbr\u003e      Dishes\u003cbr\u003e      What Happened This Summer\u003cbr\u003e      Saying Good-bye to the Property\u003cbr\u003e      Divorce\u003cbr\u003e      Shame, or the Computer Uses of Natural Language\u003cbr\u003e      1 September, 100 Degrees\u003cbr\u003e      Trying to Buy off Death\u003cbr\u003e      I Can’t. Yes, You Can\u003cbr\u003e      Worry about Meaning\u003cbr\u003e      Cradle\u003cbr\u003e      Family\u003cbr\u003e      Piecing\u003cbr\u003e      Plate xii\u003cbr\u003e      Assignment\u003cbr\u003e      Three Ways of Looking at It\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Three\u003cbr\u003e      Gossip\u003cbr\u003e      Father\u003cbr\u003e      Women Raised in the Fifties\u003cbr\u003e      She\u003cbr\u003e      What Is Good\u003cbr\u003e      Lot’s Wives\u003cbr\u003e      Widow\u003cbr\u003e      Visitant\u003cbr\u003e      Some Other Women Now\u003cbr\u003e      I Am Sick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Four\u003cbr\u003e      Piecing the Universe Together with Dresses\u003cbr\u003e      She Speaks\u003cbr\u003e      Detail\u003cbr\u003e      Oracle\u003cbr\u003e      Pregnant Woman\u003cbr\u003e      Sabbath\u003cbr\u003e      Small Shelter\u003cbr\u003e      Pain\u003cbr\u003e      A Meeting with My Ex-Husband\u003cbr\u003e      High Ground\u003cbr\u003e      With Stanley Kunitz at the Car Wash\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Five\u003cbr\u003e      Advice\u003cbr\u003e      Restraint\u003cbr\u003e      Journal Entry: The Tropics\u003cbr\u003e      Friend in a Distant City\u003cbr\u003e      Sex\u003cbr\u003e      Alone\u003cbr\u003e      Look\u003cbr\u003e      Lacunae\u003cbr\u003e      C3\u003cbr\u003e      Ambition\u003cbr\u003e      Helios at Bread Loaf, the Album\u003cbr\u003e      The Man\u003cbr\u003e      My Dream, Your Dream\u003cbr\u003e      September: Getting Married Again\u003cbr\u003e      Prospectus\u003cbr\u003e      Atonement\u003cbr\u003e      Bear\u003cbr\u003e      Version\u003cbr\u003e      Inside the Geese\u003cbr\u003e      Life Outside the Self: The Uncertainty Principle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409237090647,"sku":"9781496228185","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496228185.jpg?v=1730506088","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-happens-9781496228185","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}