Home Studies (Many Voices Project Award Winner), by Julie Gard
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Poetry. LGBT Studies. In HOME STUDIES, Julie Gard presents queer midwestern family life from a fresh and engaging perspective. Her prose poetry illuminates the struggles and celebrations of adoptive parenting, love over time, and finding one's place in a community. "From beginning to end, Gard's new collection trades in empathy... a series of fifty-nine linked prose poems, or snapshots, that delineate the every- day... We might go so far as to call this a post-Adrienne Rich collection, less a call to arms than an invitation to climb into the quotidian trenches and live for a while."—Lance Larsen, author of Genius Loci
Home Studies (Many Voices Project Award Winner), by Julie Gard- Amazon Sales Rank: #1562012 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 6.50" w x .25" l, .37 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 88 pages
About the Author Julie Gard received her BA in English from Grinnell College and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota. Publications include Russia in 17 Objects, which was awarded first place in the Tiger's Eye Press Chapbook Contest in 2010, and Obscura: The Daguerreotype Series, released by Finishing Line Press in 2007. Her poetry collection HOME STUDIES was the 2013 recipient of the Many Voices Project Prize from New Rivers Press. She is the recipient of grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council. Gard is Associate Professor of Writing at the University of Wisconsin Superior and lives with her partner, the poet Michelle Matthees, in Duluth, Minnesota.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. “A deliciously beautiful look at lesbian life” By Amazon Customer Julie Gard’s newest release “Home Studies” could not be more appropriately titled as the collection of prose poems delightfully detailing more than a decade of the author’s experiences in life, love and family. Broken up into three parts, “Homes Studies” pulls at the heart strings beginning with a subtle commentary on how members of the LBGT community tend to be labeled solely based on their sexual orientation even as the “lesbian poet moms” deal with the unbearable death of their youngest child.Each prose then builds from relatable to unimaginable as the heart-wrenching stories in the middle section describe the house fire that devastated the family through portrayals of items at the neighborhood thrift store. As careful readers uncover the increasingly creepy details of the disturbed neighbor who set the blaze, ranging from the lingerie left on the porch and a declaration that he wanted to be “daddy” to the couple’s adopted daughter to the mental anguish of small town rumors, each revelation brings the horror back anew.The only possible drawback I could say about “Home Studies” is the final section of the book doesn’t have quite the punch that the first two built to. With that being said, these prose still flow with the overall theme of the collection. It is easy to see why “Homes Studies” is the most recent winner of the New Rivers Press’s Many Voices Project with such hauntingly beautiful lines such as “the computers will glow all around us, and you’ll learn that words, if nothing else, make sense.”We can only hope that Gard’s words make sense to readers no matter their orientation or location.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Not your "typical" poetry book By Amazon Customer Home Studies by Julie Gard are a collection of poems split into three parts. The first part, dealing with sexual orientation, would be relatable to many people. Gard presents a Midwestern spin in her poems.Maybe I’m naive, but for someone to express their feelings so thoroughly from the Midwest seems unfamiliar. Most of the time, experiences such as, having a neighbor try to burn your house down in part two, would have to be pried out of anybody. The feeling of being lost, not having a purpose, or even being extremely quiet is common threads that many can relate to in some way.I don’t typically read poetry. However, Home Studies are not poetry as most would associate. Every page has its poem. No poem is longer than three very short paragraphs. In a way, it’s like going on a treasure hunt and finding someone’s long lost diary of notes and tidbits they wrote to no one in particular.The poem “You Can Always Do It Again” is probably the most indicative of a middle class mother’s routine. Other poems in Home Studies may not relate to you. They may not even make sense to some. But I bet most of the poems will leave you thinking about something personal in your life similar to the experiences shared by Gard.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Fantastic Choice By Amazon Customer When I first picked up “Home Studies,” by Julie Gard, I was not expecting to not be able to put it down. Ms. Gard takes a close look at life as a Midwesterner through all three parts of this book of prose poems. Starting out with taking a look at how members of the LGBT community deal with the labels that come with their sexual preference, “Home Studies” travels through devastation, loss, and triumph as it reaches its end.Each poem builds on previous poems as it goes from relatable occurrences to unimaginable happenings as the second section plows forward through the house fire and the coping that came with it. Readers are set to figure out for themselves the odd vibes that come off of the neighbor, as he declares that he wants to be the “daddy” of the child. Readers must then deal with the crippling effects that a small town rumor mill can have on a person.It is very easy to see how New Rivers Press chose “Home Studies” as its most recent winner of the Many Voice’s Project. “Home Studies” will grab hold of the reader from the very first poem, to the very last stanza.
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