House and Garden

By John Engels

What happened to Adam and Eve after they were expelled from the garden of Eden? In this collection of poetry, John Engels has it that they move to a town resembling Burlington, Vermont, and set up a home, complete with deck and garden. In their new location, they continue to name creation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026803057X
• ISBN13: 9780268030575
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 93 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.3" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Memorable poetic monologues

John Engels (professor of English at St. Michael's College and an award winning author of ten volumes of poetry) offers a impressively textured series of memorable poetic monologues in House And Garden in revelation and celebration of the thoughts of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden (and beyond), and the process of establishing order through the naming of things - and feelings. Adam in the Graveyard: How cold it is,/that white sun smoking overhead,/powerful contours of snow//braiding, dividing/around the stones,/sheeting and rumpling as if//something were struggling/to break through./In this place//memory's no salvation,/there's no cause to wake/or trouble us, in this place love//has dwindled to fatigue/like winter gardens/discarded to this//whirl of dirt,/to these heaviest/of days, to this most durable//of our inclinations. John Engels' House And Garden is also available in hardcover.