Synopses & Reviews
baggageThe Woman Who Loved HalloweenThe Woman Who Hated Thanks, GivingThe Woman Who Was Confused by ChristmasThe Woman Who Hated New Year's EveHer Purse, at the Winter SolsticeThe Woman Who Hated Valentine's DayThe Woman Who Became All AshThe Woman Who Couldn't Be Good or RightThe Twisted Girl of Mid-AprilThe Woman Whose Mother Became "The" MothShameThe Woman Who Prayed to Separate Herself from MemoryEvolutionAnthemJail FevertripHoliday: Part IPart IIPart IIIPart IVPart VPart VIPart VIIPart VIIIPart IXPart XsurceaseSwan Song of the Sad Woman at the Birth of the Millennium
Synopsis
Holiday is a book of poems chiseled into public and private calendar markers, where the unfinished self seeks resolution, desperately and defiantly, through either completion or negation. The poems are filled with unflinching irony and an intelligence that both celebrates and laments personal, mythic, biblical, and historical events.
About the Author
Susan Hahn is the editor of TriQuarterly magazine and coeditor of TriQuarterly Books. She is the author of three books of poems: Harriet Rubin's Mother's Wooden Hand; Incontinence, which won the Society of Midland Authors poetry award; and Confession, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
Table of Contents
baggageThe Woman Who Loved Halloween
The Woman Who Hated Thanks, Giving
The Woman Who Was Confused by Christmas
The Woman Who Hated New Years Eve
Her Purse, at the Winter Solstice
The Woman Who Hated Valentines Day
The Woman Who Became All Ash
The Woman Who Couldnt Be Good or Right
The Twisted Girl of Mid-April
The Woman Whose Mother Became "The" Moth
Shame
The Woman Who Prayed to Separate Herself from Memory
Evolution
Anthem
Jail Fever
trip
Holiday:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Part VI
Part VII
Part VIII
Part IX
Part X
surcease
Swan Song of the Sad Woman at the Birth of the Millennium