Ebook {Epub PDF} Ghost House by Hannah Faith Notess

“How many times // has the thing I wanted stayed hidden from me, / obscured by my longing?” asks Hannah Faith Notess in poems that illuminate the spiritual, sexual, and geographical longings that tether us to earth yet prod us beyond the borders of our bodies: “the drawbridge gapes open // like the gulf between Man and God, but nobody / is waiting to cross over, nobody wants to switch sides.”.  · Hannah Faith Notess offers this experience in her collection of poems, The Multitude. Every once in a while, a writer beautifully expresses the human longing for illumination, causing the reader to sit still for a moment, unable to jump right up and re-enter the everyday world. (“Ghost House Level,” 1, 17). The beauty of these poems. Ghost House book. Read 6 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Poems. Ghost House book. Read 6 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Hannah Faith Notess is a poet, editor, web developer, and the author of The Multitude, winner of the Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press. She /5.

Hannah Faith Notess is the author of Ghost House, a chapbook of poems (FLoating Bridge Press, ), and Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical (Wipf and Stock, ). Her poems have appeared in Rattle, Slate, Los Angeles Review, and Image, among other www.doorway.ru is the managing editor of Seattle Pacific University's Response magazine and lives in Seattle with her family. Another family friend died, but there were also highlights, such as finally seeing Hannah Silva's Schlock in Oxford, meeting Leah Umansky, and reading Fiona Moore's audit of poetry and sexism in the Guardian. Soundtrack of the month: Hannah Faith Notess's Ghost House. Yerzhan grows up in a two-house village, where the only job is to switch the points on the train track every now and then: not far from a secret government facility where his uncle works on developing new atomic weapons for the Soviet Union. The Kazakh steppe and the test facility are almost active in their dismissal of life, as though nature.

The Multitude, Hannah Faith Notess Aug Megan Pooler Every once in a while, a writer beautifully expresses the human longing for illumination, causing the reader to sit still for a moment, unable to jump right up and re-enter the everyday world. “How many times // has the thing I wanted stayed hidden from me, / obscured by my longing?” asks Hannah Faith Notess in poems that illuminate the spiritual, sexual, and geographical longings that tether us to earth yet prod us beyond the borders of our bodies: “the drawbridge gapes open // like the gulf between Man and God, but nobody / is waiting to cross over, nobody wants to switch sides.”. In one poem of Hannah Faith Notess’s outstanding chapbook, Ghost House, she inhabits the voice of the classic video game character Yoshi and declares: “I will devour everything / that wants to harm you.” Notess’s work, too, is omnivorous: she takes topics as disparate as video games, theology, family history, witches, ghosts, and a multitude of other inspirations and turns them into sophisticated poems that always add up to more than the sum of their parts.