Hilda Raz is a former editor of Prairie Schooner and is the founding director of the Prairie Schooner Book Prizes. She was named the first Luschei Professor and Editor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Raz is editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at the University of New Mexico Press and poetry editor for ABQ (in)Print and Bosque Press. She is the author or editor of fourteen books, including her most recent book, Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986–2020, as well as Divine Honors, Trans, What Happens, and What Becomes You (with Aaron Raz Link), all available from the University of Nebraska Press.
I. History: Everyone today looked remarkable
Vocation
Diaspora
Childhood
Water Ceremonies
All Odd and Splendid
Wilt
Son
He Graduates from Clown School
He/She: The Bike
Credo
Spring Snowstorm
Dante's Words
Sunday Morning, without Couplet
Tyr
II. The Transfer of Power: So absolute and immutable
Once
Storm
The Transfer of Power
An Evening
Infant, in New York
Visit
Four/Two
Eva Unwraps a Bandaid
III. War: Button, feather, tassel or stripe
Complaint
Flight
The Public Baths
Pets
September 11
Fire Should Be Measured by What Didn't Burn
Paper Strip
IV. Seeing the Changes
Arousal
Coma
A Friend
Her Dream
Objects When the Body Fails
Beloved, 24
Funeral, then Flu
Suite
The Changes
A Body of Water
Elegy for Two Poets
V. The Especial Shape
2 A.M. Migraine
Moving Pictures
Dark Haired, Dark Eyed, Fierce
Professional Travel
Alice
VI. All Odd and Splendid
Terza Rima
Now
Tenor Part
Splendid
Love This
Thank You Very Much
Credits and Acknowledgments
