Author : Tom Daley
Publisher : Futurecycle Press
ISBN 13 : 9781938853685
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (536 download)
Book Synopsis House You Cannot Reach by : Tom Daley
Download or read book House You Cannot Reach written by Tom Daley and published by Futurecycle Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In HOUSE YOU CANNOT REACH, a mother's voice is reimagined, amplified, and permitted to ventilate both forbidden grievance and private passion. Simultaneously wistful and excoriating, she cherishes and denounces a philandering husband and ponders the suicide of her youngest son. Whether needling a portfolio manager or reconnoitering the disappointing God of her Irish Catholic upbringing, she casts her sometimes witty, sometimes jaded regard on a society that pampered and grieved her. After a stroke, her restraint loosens even more radically. Her consciousness splinters as she proceeds to cajole the Virgin of Guadalupe, to hallucinate over Tolstoy's War and Peace, and to brazenly equate her addled suffering with that of earthquake victims in Haiti. Complemented by poems in the poet's voice that extend the territory of their mutual experience, this mother's utterances discomfit and regale with terrifying and exultant fervor.