Here in the Ice House

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Here in the Ice House is written by Jeanne Stauffer-Merle and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1622292219 (ISBN 10) and 9781622292219 (ISBN 13).

"Jeanne Stauffer-Merle's masterful collection Here in the Ice House is the "negative space," an end-of-days world, an expressionistic series of tone poems with an isolated speaker who moves through a frozen landscape: where the tree "is the coffin of embryo," the house can be "a square white tooth," a daughter can be exhorted to "dine on my dead," and there is a "black sun" and an "under side of light." In a stunning final poem, of those in the ice house and the "dog people" who live behind its walls, the imagery verges on the Kabbalistic, where "the ice people are the broken words of a god no longer discernable." Imagine an apocalyptic Wallace Stevens and you have some sense of what this haunting world of lies built on ice might feel like." -- Sharon Dolin, from the publisher's website.