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The Truth of Houses
Year
2011
Language
ENGLISH
Publication Information
Brick Books
Summary
Winner of the 2011 Concordia University First Book Prize, Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards. Shortlisted for the 2012 Award for People's Poetry (Acorn-Plantos Award Committee). Poems exploring the idea of home and the difficulties of a deeply ambiguous relationship to that word. At once wise and achingly at a loss, Ann Scowcroft's The Truth of Houses is an elegant debut collection. While very intimate -- even startlingly intimate at times -- the voices of these poems are constantly taking a step backward, wrestling for a measure of distance and perspective. Reading them, we eavesdrop on the uncovering of a personal vernacular that might allow the present to be better lived; we have the sense of overhearing a particular yet eerily familiar inner struggle -- a struggle for insight, for an equanimity with which both narrator and fortunate reader might re-enter life anew.