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Book SynopsisIn a voice that is urgent, Howard Altmann asks the world to be patient with all that it cannot hear. Poet John Ashberry calls Altmann's interrogations and his hypnotic, mysterious and dreamlike poems 'as essential as a glass of water'.
Trade Review"Howard Altmann interrogates the sky, the light, the world, about their intentions. If he seldom finds reassuring answers, he finds something better: 'When all that consoled consoles no longer / loneliness finds a room inside the one it knows.' These poems are as essential as a glass of water"--John Ashbery. Poems from IN THIS HOUSE have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, New England Review, and Open City. "Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one of his quietly amazing lines'you ask the silence to invert itself / like a gymnast in the dark . . . ' Without a trace of rhetoric, In This House reminds us of the power of poetry: to show us how to live in a world in which we are strangers. It's a thrill to come close to such an original and deeply realized art."--Dennis Nurkse
