House of Fact, House of Ruin: Poems Contributor(s): Sleigh, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555977979 ISBN-13: 9781555977979 Publisher: Graywolf Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2017938019 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.40 lbs) 120 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Tom Sleigh's brilliant new collection is "full of the wonder and eloquence driving profound poetry" (Los Angeles Times) I'm washing my naked belly clean, and doing it with dignity. --from "House of Fact, House of Ruin" "I hate to admit it, but even the house of fact is a house of ruin," writes Tom Sleigh in the title sequence of this extraordinary new collection. Very much of our present moment, in which fact can so easily be manufactured and ruin so easily achieved by pressing "Send" or pulling a trigger, these poems range across the landscapes of contemporary experience. Whether a militia in Libya or a military base in Baghdad, a shantytown in East Africa or an opulent mall on Long Island, these subjects and locations resonate with the psychic and social costs of having let the genie of war, famine, and climate change out of the lamp in the first place. The book ultimately turns on conundrums of selfhood and self-estrangement in which Sleigh urges us toward a different realm, where we might achieve the freedom of spirit to step outside our own circumstances, however imperfectly, and look at ourselves as other, as unfamiliar, as strange. House of Fact, House of Ruin is Sleigh's most engaging and virtuosic collection to date. |