Beware the House

$16.95


Brand Susanna Rich
Merchant Amazon
Category Books
Availability In Stock
SKU 0922558345
Age Group ADULT
Condition NEW
Gender UNISEX
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Product Type Books > Subjects > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Regional & Cultural > United States

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Beware the House

In Beware the House, poet Susanna Rich book-ends a wide-ranging collection of life story-poems between two Gothic, haunted houses, the first a surreal nightmare; the second, the mock-Gothic harpsichord-punctuated world of TV’s The Addams Family. Unease, discomfort, and pain belong between two haunted places (confused birth and sardonic death), and Rich shares deeply personal accounts of her Hungarian-immigrant grandmother, obsessed in old age with Franz Liszt as an imaginary lover; and a disintegrating mother in the throes of dementia. At the center of the book are poems like glass shards of modern living, a keen and concise language palette turning the everyday into the extraordinary. Like a gypsy dance, these poems careen off common experiences — the grandmother’s kitchen, the captive butterfly, a rebellion of trees, the driven car and the rubbernecked accident. And there are villains: the predatory boor repulsed, the unteachable student lesson-taught, the empty soul of the CEO laid bare, the bad president as piñata, the lecherous poetry professor, the restless Dybbuk.

Brand Susanna Rich
Merchant Amazon
Category Books
Availability In Stock
SKU 0922558345
Age Group ADULT
Condition NEW
Gender UNISEX
Google Product Category Media > Books
Product Type Books > Subjects > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Regional & Cultural > United States

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