The truth of houses
By: Ann Scowcroft
Publisher: Brick Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9781771313285; 9781926829678
Description: At once wise and achingly at a loss, Ann Scowcroft's The Truth of Houses is an elegant 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.