United States, (b. 1938)
Diction
- “God is in the details,”
- I tell the kids
- in the public school
- in Milligan, Nebraska.
- They wonder what I mean.
- I tell them to look
- out the window
- at the spring fields
- the mud coming up
- just to the knee
- of the small pig
- in the far pasture.
- They tell me
- it’s not a knee
- but a hock
- and I hadn’t ought
- to say things I know
- nothing about. I say
- the light on the mud
- is pure chalcedony.
- They say the mud
- killed two cows
- over the weekend.
- I tell them the pig
- is alive and the spring
- trees are standing in a green haze.
- They tell me school is out
- in a week and they have to plant.
- The grain elevator at the end
- of Main Street stretches out
- her blue arms. The kids say chutes.
About the Poet:
Hilda Raz, United States, (b. 1938), is a poet, editor and educator. She has published fourteen books as a poet, nonfiction writer, and editor. She was a professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where she also held a variety of editorial positions from assistant to editor-in-chief of Prairie Schooner (1970-2010).
She has served as editor, scholar, and fellow at the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference, and is a past president of Associated Writing Programs. She is the editor of several anthologies, including Living in the Margins: Women Writers on Breast Cancer (2000) and The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Writing (1998).
Raz currently lives in New Mexico and is the Series Editor for Poetry at the University of New Mexico Press, Editor of the University of New Mexico Press Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series and Poetry Editor of bosque, a literary journal. [DES-01/22]
Additional information:
- Hilda Raz – http://www.hildaraz.com/