The Light in Our Houses

Remarkable for their dark, sharp wit, their stylistic unity, and their combination of sweetness and risk, the poems in The Light in Our Houses probe the intersection of public and private history, and visit the way stories are told: "what we have named history / was once only the braided rivers / of people's lives, currents that brimmed / fast and dangerous, then emptied / into the wide blank spill of ocean." Voicing a disdain for conclusions -- "the gaudy clothes we wrap narrative in" -- Al Maginnes writes poems that carry the weight of parables.

Author: Al Maginnes
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 05/01/2000
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d
ISBN: 9780807126226

About the Author
Al Maginnes is also the author of Taking Up Our Daily Tools. His poems have appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Georgia Review, Antioch Review, Shenandoah, and many other literary journals. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina