" - Paul Schurke
can anyone fully escape the pull of what they've grown up with
she liked the one about peonies because she likespoems about the end of the world
they evince a compelling vision of possibilities otherwise
Is there truth for every human being within its pages-the very Word of God to us-or only for a few
About the House Book cover type:Paperback " - Paul SchurkeComposed over the course of a single year, the three sequences in Stacy Szymaszek's tenth book, About the House, make room through attention. The rituals that provoke these poems are rooted in conversation and communion, joining chance encounter with the familiar. Drawing on journal writing, folk poetics, prayer, and bibliomancy, Szymaszek explores the intimacies of sharing space with human, plant, ghost, and animal others. "I sit and think and in