Prospects

Judith Hall

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9780807174234
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Women in Poetry
• Index: Literature

Which prospects will be shared? Which inherited? Or must they be individual inventions, spurs digging into a future unavailable but, nevertheless, still there? Judith Hall's new poems consider the ways in which prospects take any number of forms, as different perspectives offer a sense of choice and loss.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• The Boy’s Grace; or, Pessimism
• Dear _________
• Experience
• “ROUND AND ROUND THEY SPED”
• Wanted: A Ploy: Employment: Apply
• “I WAS DISTURBED AT THIS”
• Just Now between Positions
• Do Not. Period. Follow
• From the DANAË COLLECTION
• The Girl’s Will; or, Optimism
• Prospect
• The Fringe Life
• Poems Found in a Dress for Success
• Experience Filed Under
• “The Applicant”
• Night Heart
• “The Economic Crisis as Idyll”
• “I ACCOSTED THE MAN”
• “‘IT IS FUTILE,’ I SAID”
• “‘YOU CAN NEVER’”
• Natural / Work Hard / Ability
• Letter to a Son
• The Buried Life
• One Less Husband
• The Pity of War
• But Go / Antagonize / And Come
• Op. “New Dawn”
• “‘YOU LIE,’ HE CRIED”
• Perilous Riddle
• Bride to Be
• “AND RAN ON”
• American Labor Poetry
• “I SAW A MAN PURSUING THE HORIZON”
• Coin
• FRACKING Leaves of Grass
• Prospect with a Grain of Salt
• Immaterial Arrival
• Acknowledgments and Notes