Wait (Wisconsin Poetry Series) - Softcover

Stine, Alison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299283143 ISBN 13: 9780299283148

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011

Synopsis

In a small town under a spell, a child bride prays for the sheriff’s gun. Iron under a bed stops a nightmare. The carousel artist can carve only birds. Part fairy tale and part gothic ballad, Wait spans a single year: the year before a young woman’s marriage. Someone is always watching—from the warehouse, from the woods. And on the outskirts of town, someone new is waiting.

About this title

About the Author:

Alison Stine is the author of Ohio Violence. Winner of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford, and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, she lives in Athens, Ohio.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

                                    The birds landed            in our braided hair, and the men                         called but could not find us. You were coming. You were coming.            I didn’t know. I would have curled                         in a rabbit whorl, a mouse nest, in leaf-spilled shade. I am a bird            in the field and I want you to find me.                         I want you to find me. Tell me wait.—excerpt from “Wife”© The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved. 

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0299283143
• ISBN 13: 9780299283148
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 88