Handmade Boats

By H.K. Hummel

Poems by H.K. Hummel published by Whale Sound Audio Chapbooks.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Whale Sound
• Release date: Aug 11, 2011

H.K. Hummel

H.K. Hummel is a poet, editor and teacher. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She has published poems in a variety of journals such as Hawk & Handsaw, Quiddity, Antigonish Review, Calyx and others. In January 2011, she was a resident at the Montana Artists Refuge and in August 2009 she served as the Emerging Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Centre in Greenmount, Western Australia. She has a master’s degree from Eastern Washington University and a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Davis.

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Handmade Boats

poems by H.K. Hummel

Edited by Nic Sebastian

Smashwords Edition

Cover art: Paul Hurst

Copyright 2011: H.K. Hummel

Published by Whale Sound Audio Chapbooks

This e-book edition is a companion to the original text/audio online publication of Handmade Boats.

CONTENTS

Fog, Water, Ice

On Edward Hopper's Automat

The Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island

The Bartender

The Migrations of Women

At the Edge of the Jungle

Unfencing the Neighborhood

Fear, then Oblivion

Not Touching, Touching

When One Animal

Inventory of the Trousseau

Icicle Moss

Acknowledgments

About the author

About the editor/publisher

Fog, Water, Ice

Stay. Talk to me of Alcatraz,

of the impediments of water,