Is there truth for every human being within its pages-the very Word of God to us-or only for a few
can anyone fully escape the pull of what they've grown up with
“These stories are heartfelt and well-turned but basketball is only their setting
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Volt Magazine
About the House Book cover type:Paperback Is there truth for everyComposed over the course of a single year, the three sequences in Stacy Szymaszek's tenth book, About the House, make room through attention. The rituals that provoke these poems are rooted in conversation and communion, joining chance encounter with the familiar. Drawing on journal writing, folk poetics, prayer, and bibliomancy, Szymaszek explores the intimacies of sharing space with human, plant, ghost, and animal others. "I sit and think and in