Earthly: Poems (First Edition)

Funkhouser, Erica

ISBN 10: 0618933425 / ISBN 13: 9780618933426

Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2008

About this Item

New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. First edition, first printing, with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Black boards with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($27.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 67 pages. A late-career collection. The poems reflect on nature, inheritance, and human persistence with clarity and quiet force.

Seller Inventory # Rear-Poetry-2022-15

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Earthly: Poems (First Edition)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618933425
• ISBN 13: 9780618933426
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Erica Funkhouser's fifth collection considers what it means to be earthly. These are poems in which a one-eyed hawk observes us from ?the wide realm of his rapt patience” and a group of long-buried foundation stones works its way back to the earth's surface like ?ceremonial animals, their throats unslit.” The central poem in the collection, ?Pome,” cuts into the mythos of Johnny Appleseed, the biology of apples, and the poet's own experience of growing up on a farm. The final section of the book contains sonnets written as an homage to the Holy Sonnets of John Donne -- witty, graceful poems that limn the coming into consciousness of a young poet. A departure from Funkhouser's previous historical narratives and her compressed lyrics, the expansive poems in Earthly are sure to deliver this poet her greatest recognition yet.

About the Author

Erica Funkhouser is the author of four previous books of poems, including Pursuit and The Actual World. She is a lecturer in the department of writing and humanistic studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lives in Essex, Massachusetts.