Open house : writers redefine home / edited by Mark Doty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doty, Mark.

Series:

Graywolf forum ; 5.

Graywolf forum ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home.

Physical Description:

xvii, 236 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, [2003]

Summary:

In a shifting world, concepts of place and home take many forms. Mark Doty gathers an impressive group of writers to describe their contemporary sense of home. Victoria Redel lives her teenage years from inside a fifteen-pound body cast -- loving and hating the loss of her body; Barbara Hurd finds that within a cave, the absence of all light allows for clarity of vision; and Andrea Barrett wipes filth from a sill in her Brooklyn apartment only to realize that the dirt is actually "ash of buildings, ash of planes. Ash of people." Surroundings -- walls, trees, or states of mind -- are defined by our reactions to them. These essays are about how the mind can create a home -- for a moment, or for a lifetime.

ISBN:

1555973825

OCLC:

52193687