House Without a Dreamer (Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize Library)

by Andrea Hollander and Andrea Hollander Budy

Book Overview

In the forty poems of her first full-length book, House Without a Dreamer, winner of the 1993 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, Andrea Hollander explores the complicated emotions that accompany both... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0934257833
• ISBN13: 9780934257831
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Story Line Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Mistress of Otherness

Budy's poems take us places, within familiar surroundings, we haven't really been before, or try hard to deny acknowledging. Budy unswervingly engages all that is human and mystical in our time. She can inspire the beasts of the jungle and the chicekens themselves to dance!

You can read it again and again

This is, without a doubt, one of my favorite books of recent poetry. Among her many other talents, AHB cleverly recasts fairy tales, without falling victim to Adrienne Rich's tendency to find mythology in everything, and her poetic felicity goes far beyond ironic versions of folk wisdom. She'll teach you about pain and aging, yet her profundities don't ring pedantic. She'll humor you without sacrificing her poetic integrity. I cannot say enough in praise of her craft. Too many writers continue to pass off broken prose as poetry, yet AHB pays close attention to line and teases you with occasional amphibolic turns of phrase. Her emotional insight into relationships and her ability to render those relationships with candor makes her poetry familiar, yet she achieves this without sacrificing the strength of her subversive moments. This book is a joy to read again and again.