The Diminishing House

In Nicky Beer's The Diminishing House, birds are disemboweled, a father is mourned, and a basement fills with snakes. This first book of resonant lyric poetry meditates on such subjects as animals, art, and anatomy, and transforms the familiar and mundane into something strangely mythic. Beer explores the exhilaration and frustration of living in a sensuous, unstable world filled with grief and desire.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Published: 01/11/2010
ISBN: 9780887485169
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.30d
Award: Colorado Book Award - Winner