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050 00$aPS3569.L36$bA6 2018
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100 1 $aSleigh, Tom.
245 10$aHouse of fact, house of ruin :$bpoems /$cTom Sleigh.
260 $aMinneapolis, Minnesota :$bGraywolf Press,$c[2018].
300 $a117 p. ;$c23 cm.
520 $a"Very much of our present moment, in which fact can so easily be manufactured and ruin so easily achieved by pressing SEND or pulling a trigger, these poems range across the landscapes of contemporary experience. Whether a militia in Libya or a military base in Baghdad, a shantytown in East Africa or an opulent mall on Long Island, these subjects and locations resonate with the psychic and social costs of having let the genie of war, famine, and climate change out of the lamp in the first place. The book ultimately turns on conundrums of selfhood and self-estrangement in which Sleigh urges us toward a different realm, where we might achieve the freedom of spirit to step outside our own circumstances, however imperfectly, and look at ourselves as other, as unfamiliar, as strange."--$cPage [4] of cover.
650 4$aPOETRY / American / General.