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Open House

Subtitle
Writers Redefine Home - Graywolf Forum Five
Author 1
Edited and with an Introduction by Mark Doty
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Where do I live? I don't have a ready answer, not really, but I've realized there's something I like about not having an answer. And indeed something of that spirit-a curious, open engagement with the now, in its slippery and uncertain character-animates this book.—Mark Doty, from his Introduction

In a shifting world, concepts of place and home take many forms. Editor Mark Doty gathers an impressive group of writers to describe their contemporary sense of home. Victoria Redel lives her teenage years within a fifteen-pound body cast-loving and hating the loss of her body; Carmen Boullosa finds that within a cave, the absence of all light allows for clarity of vision; and Andrea Barrett wipes filth from a sill in her Brooklyn apartment only to realize that the dirt is actually ". . . ash of buildings, ash of planes. Ash of people." Surroundings-walls, trees, or thoughts-are defined by our reactions to them. These essays are about how the mind can create a home-for a moment, or for a lifetime.

Contributors include Bernard Cooper, Carol Muske Dukes, Deborah Lott, Elizabeth McCracken, Mary Morris, and Terry Tempest Williams

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$16.00
ISBN
ISBN
978-1-55597-382-7
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Format
Paperback
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Pages
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304
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Trim Size
Trim Size
6 x 9
Keynote
Eighteen writers define home in all of its complexity and variety.

About the Author

Mark  Doty
Credit: Star Black
Mark Doty is the author of The Art of Description: World into Word and eight collections of poetry, including Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, which won the National Book Award. He is also the author of four works of prose nonfiction, including the memoir Heaven’s Coast, which received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. He teaches at Rutgers University and lives in New York.
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