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9781552453346 English 1552453340 From accomplished writer Ken Sparling comes a spare verse novel about a girl and a boy and the life they're writing together. But the girl wants a story and the boy wants a poem, and the furniture in the house is stuck in the middle. Meditative and magical, a book as complicated as the ways we love, "This Poem is a House "is, in the end, about a girl's story sheltering a boy's poem, the way a house shelters the lives of the people who live in it.Ken Sparling has written six novels, including "Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall "(Knopf, 1996), commissioned by Gordon Lish. He lives in Toronto, Ontario., From celebrated writer Ken Sparling comes a spare verse novel about a girl and a boy and the life they're writing together. But the girl wants a story and the boy wants a poem, and the furniture in the house is stuck in the middle. Meditative and magical, a book as complicated as the ways we love, This Poem is a House is, in the end, about a girl's story sheltering a boy's poem, the way a house shelters the lives of the people who live in it. Ken Sparling has written six novels, including Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall (Knopf, 1996), commissioned by Gordon Lish. He lives in Toronto, Ontario., If love is a house, how do we arrange the furniture? Meditative and magical, a book as complicated as the ways we love, This Poem Is a House is, in the end, about a girl's story sheltering a boy's poem, the way a house shelters the lives of the people who live in it. 'Discovering Ken Sparling's work changed everything I knew about writing. It made me realize that a novel could and should be just that - novel, that that was the point of writing, of life. Reading his work felt like permission to be myself the way that he was his self. Reading Ken Sparling reminds you that you're free.' - Jonathan Goldstein
9781552453346 English 1552453340 From accomplished writer Ken Sparling comes a spare verse novel about a girl and a boy and the life they're writing together. But the girl wants a story and the boy wants a poem, and the furniture in the house is stuck in the middle. Meditative and magical, a book as complicated as the ways we love, "This Poem is a House "is, in the end, about a girl's story sheltering a boy's poem, the way a house shelters the lives of the people who live in it.Ken Sparling has written six novels, including "Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall "(Knopf, 1996), commissioned by Gordon Lish. He lives in Toronto, Ontario., From celebrated writer Ken Sparling comes a spare verse novel about a girl and a boy and the life they're writing together. But the girl wants a story and the boy wants a poem, and the furniture in the house is stuck in the middle. Meditative and magical, a book as complicated as the ways we love, This Poem is a House is, in the end, about a girl's story sheltering a boy's poem, the way a house shelters the lives of the people who live in it. Ken Sparling has written six novels, including Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall (Knopf, 1996), commissioned by Gordon Lish. He lives in Toronto, Ontario., If love is a house, how do we arrange the furniture? Meditative and magical, a book as complicated as the ways we love, This Poem Is a House is, in the end, about a girl's story sheltering a boy's poem, the way a house shelters the lives of the people who live in it. 'Discovering Ken Sparling's work changed everything I knew about writing. It made me realize that a novel could and should be just that - novel, that that was the point of writing, of life. Reading his work felt like permission to be myself the way that he was his self. Reading Ken Sparling reminds you that you're free.' - Jonathan Goldstein