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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Epigraph; Provenance; Part 1. Downstairs; Door; Bathroom; Closet; Passage; That Chair; Art; Visitor; Money Laundering; Oh, My; Ritual; Collector's Item; Phone; August 4, 1944; Reveille; Blood and Water; The Radio; Legacy; Junk Drawer; Vision; Over Coffee; Daddy's Last Christmas; Kitchen Table; What Won't Burn; Bucket Brigade; The Ham; New Room; Part 2. Flood; It Got Us This Time; No Light; Worst Flood in Harlan County History; Interim; Threshold; Part 3. Upstairs; Landing; On Those Shelves; Interior Design; Portrait; Smithereens; Memory Book. |
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It Was a YearThis Is; Shit; [Untitled]; By the Laundry Hamper; Linen Closet; Toy Chest; Hiding; Doll Mother; NIght of the Mysteries; Off Limits; How It Smelled; Sleepless; Arthritis, 1952; The Photo of Granny Buby; November 21, 1963; Half; With a Song in His Heart; Sanctus; Company; Cliff; Part 4. Yard; D-Day; Westward Ho; At Play; Part 5. All of It; Postgraduate Work; It Doesn't Matter; In the ER; On Her Side; Final Play; Labor; Every Cupboard Bare, Every Head Bowed; Thanksgiving Night; The Day After; I Can't Believe; Welcome; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Index of First Lines; Series page. |
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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 ling. |
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Families -- Poetry.
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Families. |
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Electronic books. |
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Poetry.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9780813142777 : $38.97 |
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0813142776 : $38.97 |
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