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If the House
If the House | Molly Spencer
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In this collection, well-known spaces both reassure and imperil, and language both anchors and disorients. Molly Spencer's poems navigate the landscapes 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 volume suggests that the comfort we find in familiarity and routine belies the unease that lingers beneath. Book jacket.
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If the House | Molly Spencer
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My first read of these poems is that they describe the unsettling feeling that just precedes a moment of great transition. There is a feeling of incipience, of winter cold, where spring may, yes, bring new life but also reveals what was hidden under the snow. “Snow” is a word often repeated, as well as: storm, winter, blade, bird, crow, water, lake, river, boat, bridge, gray, stone, scrape, love. These poems are breathtaking.

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