Dwellers in the House of the Lord
Subtitle: A Poem
Publisher: Godine Publisher, David R.
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781567926637
Subjects: American literature
Description: "In this book-length narrative poem, award-winning poet Wesley McNair takes us to rural Virginia, where his younger sister Aimee is adrift in a difficult marriage to Mike, an off-the-grid gun shop owner. As Aimee grapples with self-doubt and searches for solace in a vacuous megachurch, Mike's misunderstandings are magnified by the self-first ideology and fear-of-others philosophy swirling around him. McNair casts this intimate family struggle against Trump's noisy public race to the White House"--