Hilda Raz is a former editor of Prairie Schooner and is the founding director of the Prairie Schooner Book Prizes. She was named the first Luschei Professor and Editor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Raz is editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at the University of New Mexico Press and the poetry editor for ABQ (in)Print and Bosque Press. She is the author or editor of fourteen books, including her most recent book, Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986–2020, as well as All Odd and Splendid, Trans, What Happens, and What Becomes You (with Aaron Raz Link), all available from the University of Nebraska Press.
Prologue
Repair
Narrative Without People
Let's consider the consequences
Isaac Stern's Performance
I
I Hear the Name of the Moon and Am Afraid
Weathering/boundaries/what is good
To Explain
Mu
Coming Down with Something
Fish--Belly--Mound
"Two Are Better Than One"
Getting Well
For Barbara, Who Brings a Green Stone in the Shape of a Triangle
Day-Old Bargain
Breast/fever
II
Sarah's Response
Sarah Among Animals
Sarah's Head
Sarah Fledging
Sarah's Waltz
Balance
Order
Axe-earrings, abalone shell
Birth
III
Opening/Working/Walking
Hey You
Grieving, she hits the red fox
Mapping/Bleating
Trope
Sow Sister
Bernini's Ribbon
Petting the Scar
Teaching, Hurt
Riddle
IV
Chigger Socks
Daylight Savings: Sandy Creek, Nebraska
Cobb's Hill Pond
Fuss
Zen: the one I love most holds my tongue
Camarada
From Your Mouth to God's Ear
"We don't deserve what we get"
G: But it's still not all right with you?
Mutation Blues
Insomnia Again
Service
V
Hot
Dying
Terror: A Riddle
Nuts
Lincoln, Nebraska
Letter of Transmittal
Now
Who Does She Think She Is
Earlier
Vowels
Epilogue
Gloxinia/Flicker/Oxalis
Recovery
My Award/The Jew of Lukow
Ecstasies
Acknowledgments
