An Ordinary Life: Poems

by B. H. Fairchild and B.H. Fairchild

Book Overview

In this stirring volume, award-winning poet B. H. Fairchild seeks the ironic, haunting presence imbuing each ordinary life with beauty, power, and meaning. By turns polyphonic and deeply personal, these poems range from Kansas highways and sunbaked baseball fields to secondhand memories of a World War II foxhole. They zoom in on a welder's truck, a Walmart on Black Friday, and a record store, where a chance encounter offers radiant kindness in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324036850
• ISBN13: 9781324036852
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.6"