Many-Storied House
Subtitle: Poems
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: Aug 02, 2013
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780813142616
Description: Born in the small, eastern Kentucky coal-mining town of Harlan, George Ella Lyon began her career with Mountain, a chapbook of poems. She has since published many more books in multiple genres and for readers of all ages, but poetry remains at the heart of her work. Many-Storied House is her fifth collection.While teaching aspiring writers, Lyon asked her students to write a poem based on memories rooted in a house where they had lived. Working on the assignment herself, Lyon began a personal journey, writing many poems for each room. In this intimate book, she strives to answer lingering questions about herself and her family: "Here I stand, at the beginning," she writes in the opening lines of the volume, "with more questions than / answers."
Notes: Source title: Many-Storied House: Poems (Kentucky Voices)