Home Studies was the winner of the 2013 Many Voices Award from New Rivers Press and a finalist for the 2016 Minnesota Book Award.
These prose poems portray queer midwestern family life and illuminate the struggles and celebrations of adoptive
parenting, love over time, and finding one's place in a community.
"Home Studies is filled with
insight and revelation. A wonderful first book!"
- Louis Jenkins, Tin Flag: New and Selected Prose Poems
"From beginning to end, Julie Gard’s new collection trades in empathy. .
. [It is] a series of fifty-nine linked prose poems, or snapshots, that
delineate the everyday. . . We might go so far as to call this a post-Adrienne
Rich collection, less a call to arms than an invitation to climb into the
quotidian trenches and live for a while."
- Lance Larsen, What the Body Knows
"Julie
Gard’s Home Studies is a stunning collection of brave, tender, audacious
prose poems about everyday life in the Upper Midwest. Indeed the region’s
weather and architecture are major characters in these dispatches about lesbian
partnership, motherhood, students, neighbors, aging parents and housework and
yard maintenance. . . These poems sing with resilience and wit. Home
Studies invites us to experience the sacredness in daily life."
- Valerie Miner, Bread and Salt
Read a review at mnartists.org.
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