House You Cannot Reach by Kistner, Diane

House You Cannot Reach (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781938853685)

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Format: Paperback
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House You Cannot Reach by Kistner, Diane

House You Cannot Reach

$15.95
House You Cannot Reach by Kistner, Diane

House You Cannot Reach

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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In HOUSE YOU CANNOT REACH, a mother's voice is reimagined, amplified, and permitted to ventilate both forbidden grievance and private passion. Simultaneously wistful and excoriating, she cherishes and denounces a philandering husband and ponders the suicide of her youngest son. Whether needling a portfolio manager or reconnoitering the disappointing God of her Irish Catholic upbringing, she casts her sometimes witty, sometimes jaded regard on a society that pampered and grieved her.After a stroke, her restraint loosens even more radically. Her consciousness splinters as she proceeds to cajole the Virgin of Guadalupe, to hallucinate over Tolstoy's War and Peace, and to brazenly equate her addled suffering with that of earthquake victims in Haiti.Complemented by poems in the poet's voice that extend the territory of their mutual experience, this mother's utterances discomfit and regale with terrifying and exultant fervor.

Author: Diane Kistner, Tom Daley
ISBN-10: 1938853687
ISBN-13: 9781938853685
Publisher: Futurecycle Press
Language: English
Published: 06/03/2015
Pages: 94
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.19d
By Diane Kistner
By Diane Kistner
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Tom Daley worked as a machinist for over two decades and now leads writing workshops in the Boston area and online. Recipient of the Dana Award in Poetry and the Charles and Fanny Fay Wood Prize from the Academy of American Poets, his poetry has appeared in Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, Fence, Denver Quarterly, Crazyhorse, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner, Witness, and Poetry Ireland Review.

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