Fool in a Blue House

By Katherine Gaffney

Fool in a Blue House crafts carefully appointed rooms, both interior and exterior, alongside familial and romantic love, loss and near loss of beloveds, selves, and even neighborhood rabbits. Dwelling in contradictions-strength and fragility, humor and heartbreak, safety and threat-this book ponders impossibilities as solutions to its own predicaments, "Perhaps it would be easier to write in a chorus." But these poems know that this is not the cure. These impossibilities are simply "a whole herring" dropped down a throat, a momentary pause before we dare "to defy what the sky tells us" and instead begin to tell "ourselves that we can will the sky to give."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597321974
• ISBN13: 9781597321976
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: University of Tampa Press
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"