If the House

By Molly Spencer

Book Overview

In these poems, well-known spaces both reassure and imperil, and language both anchors and disorients. Molly Spencer's speakers navigate the landscape of human experience, building upon the cycles of a household throughout the seasons of the year. Ordinary places and things--a kitchen table, a memory, a beloved's thigh--are viewed as if through the lens of a shifting, unsettling kaleidoscope. This incisive collection suggests that the imagined comfort we find in familiarity and routine belies the unease that lingers beneath.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299325946
• ISBN13: 9780299325947
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.9"