{"product_id":"the-truth-of-houses-9781926829678","title":"The Truth of Houses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems exploring the idea of home and the difficulties of a deeply ambiguous relationship to that word.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt once wise and achingly at a loss, Ann Scowcroft's \u003ci\u003eThe Truth of Houses\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegant and honest debut collection. While very intimate—even startlingly intimate at times—the voices of these poems are constantly taking a step backward, wrestling for a measure of distance and perspective. Reading them, we eavesdrop on the uncovering of a personal vernacular that might allow the present to be better lived; we have the sense of overhearing a particular yet eerily familiar inner struggle—a struggle for insight, for an equanimity with which both narrator and fortunate reader might re-enter life anew.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"All of which is to say: the houses aren't fooled\u003cbr\u003e the houses know the five truths\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe truth of light: you will see before you understand \u003cbr\u003eThe truth of motion: escape is an illusion\u003cbr\u003eThe truth of trees: your busy life will dissolve into the soil\u003cbr\u003eThe truth of windows: what protects can also maim\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe truth of peace:\u003cbr\u003edespite all the other truths\u003cbr\u003eknowing will come to you wearing one hundred faces\u003cbr\u003econtain you as once you contained your\u003cbr\u003eown blood\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e—from \"The Truth of Houses\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ann Scowcroft","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278408003835,"sku":"9781926829678","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781926829678.jpg?v=1772488060","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-truth-of-houses-9781926829678","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}