The Audible and the Evident
The Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
GENERAL EDITOR: DAVID SANDERS
Named after the distinguished poet who taught for many years at Ohio University and made Athens, Ohio, the subject of many of his poems, this competition invites writers to submit unpublished collections of original poems. The competition is open to poets who have not published a book-length collection as well as to those who have.
Full and updated information is available on the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize web page: ohioswallow.com/poetry_prize.
Meredith Carson, Infinite Morning
Memye Curtis Tucker, The Watchers
V. Penelope Pelizzon, Nostos
Kwame Dawes, Midland
Allison Eir Jenks, The Palace of Bones
Robert B. Shaw, Solving for X
Dan Lechay, The Quarry
Joshua Mehigan, The Optimist
Jennifer Rose, Hometown for an Hour
Ann Hudson, The Armillary Sphere
Roger Sedarat, Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic
Jason Gray, Photographing Eden
Will Wells, Unsettled Accounts
Stephen Kampa, Cracks in the Invisible
Nick Norwood, Gravel and Hawk
Charles Hood, South × South: Poems from Antarctica
Alison Powell, On the Desire to Levitate
Shane Seely, The Surface of the Lit World
Michelle Y. Burke, Animal Purpose
Michael Shewmaker, Penumbra
Idris Anderson, Doubtful Harbor
Joseph J. Capista, Intrusive Beauty
Julie Hanson, The Audible and the Evident
The Audible and the Evident
Poems
Julie Hanson
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
ATHENS
Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701
© 2020 by Julie Hanson
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Cover art: Charles E. Burchfield (1893–1967), The Woodpecker, 1955–1963; watercolor, gouache, and crayon on pieced paper, 49 1/4 x 37 1/4 inches; (frame: 54 3/4 x 42 1/2 inches); Courtesy of Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Affiliated with Wake Forest University, Gift of Barbara B. Millhouse, 1984.2.14. Reproduced with permission of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hanson, Julie Jordan, author.
Title: The audible and the evident : poems / Julie Hanson.
Description: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2020] | Series: Hollis Summers poetry prize | Summary: “In this, Julie Hanson’s second award-winning book, the poems inscribe deep stillness on a world of harmonies in motion. Whether composed on modern objects, say a vacuum-“part pet, part sculpture/sprawled awkwardly, still shrieking”-that evokes a sudden onrush of sobbing, or the notional movement between a plastic bag, a lawn and a return from a France not yet visited, these poems circulate among the senses as moments that pass and are recalled. Hanson’s poems investigate interiority as they resonate in the ear to excite the eye. Together, her poems illustrate the movement between and among seasons and tasks, work and leisure, solitude and people, and all through the private life as it intersects with the products and noises of industry and nature. Hanson’s is a poetic realm that includes the head-splitting bright white screamings of an Indy 500 race into a zen garden, this realm we all inhabit where birdsong and squeaky water meters improvise together”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019058665 | ISBN 9780821424155 (paperback ; acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780821440957 (pdf)
Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry.
Classification: LCC PS3608.A72278 A96 2020 | DDC 811/.6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019058665
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Contents
Real Life, Dear Voyeur, Real Life
Improvisation or The Bluebird of Happiness
