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Half-Hazard
Half-Hazard: Poems | Kristen Tracy
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Half-Hazard is the Winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award from the Poetry Foundation for a debut by an American poet over forty. Half-Hazard is a book of near misses, would-be tragedies, and luck. As Kristen Tracy writes in the title poem, Dangers here. Perils there. Itll go how it goes. The collection follows her wide curiosity, from growing up in a small Mormon farming community to her exodus into the forbidden world, where she finds snakes, car accidents, adulterers, meteors, and death-marked mice. These wry, observant narratives are accompanied by a ringing lyricism, and Tracys knack for noticing whats so funny about trouble and her natural impulse to want to put all the broken things back together. Full of wrong turns, false loves, quashed beliefs, and a menagerie of animals, Half-Hazard introduces a vibrant new voice in American poetry, one of resilience, faith, and joy.
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Half-Hazard: Poems | Kristen Tracy
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645am on a Saturday at the medical lab waiting to do a blood draw. I was surprised to see at least 12 people already waiting. I had picked up this slim book after browsing the library “new arrivals” shelves the other day. The cover attracted me and when I flipped through the book to a random page and read:
Having it?
The story likes to end with a body.
He cuts her open, takes the knife
to the bone, but finds her
to be just like any other goose.