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What the House Knows

Diane Lockward

What the House Knows is an anthology of 116 poems by 116 poets, poets such as Ted Kooser, Alice Friman, Billy Collins, Tracy K. Smith, Jan Beatty, and George Bilgere. Each poem features a house. Throughout the collection, you will find a variety of houses: old age homes, a schoolhouse, an outhouse, an abandoned farmhouse, rented apartments, and even a doghouse. The poems tell stories and hit the heart. There are poems about losing a house to fire, moving out of a house after divorce, remembering people who once lived in the house. You will also find a variety of people inhabiting the houses. And you will find poems in a variety of forms. As you move from poem to poem, from house to house, walk through the rooms known in Italy as stanzas. Listen to what the walls have to say.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Terrapin Books
  • Publish Date: Mar 1st, 2025
  • Pages: 210
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.48in - 0.63lb
  • EAN: 9781947896789
  • Categories: Anthologies (multiple authors)GeneralGeneral

About the Author

Lockward, Diane: - Diane Lockward is the author of four poetry books, most recently The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement (Wind Publications, 2016). She is also the editor of three earlier poetry anthologies, most recently A Constellation of Kisses (Terrapin Books, 2019). And she is the editor of The Strategic Poet: Honing the Craft (Terrapin Books, 2021) and three previous craft books. Her awards include the Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, a poetry fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and a Woman of Achievement Award. Her poems have been included in such journals as the Harvard Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her work has also been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, American Life in Poetry, and The Writer's Almanac. She is the founder and publisher of Terrapin Books.