Homeless at
Home Homeless at Home is a series of
letters addressed to a deceased father, whose life was
shattered and fragmented by war, loss, and economic
instability, and further splintered by generational strife
and estrangement. With an emotionally complex voice that
intercuts global events and personal history, the letters
strive to speak with the father, to bring him up to date
with "current" events and with the poetic life of the
speaker. Homeless at Home offers the reader a hard-earned,
clear-eyed, passionate rendering of the father/daughter
relationship. Frym writes that "these poems are guided by
Jack Spicer's notion that poetry is an argument between the
dead and the living, a kind of correspondence." "A passionate and unforgettable
meditation on family...A breathless book. A poet swimming at
the height of her powers. An epistle for what poetry gives
and takes." -Ray Gonzalez,
The Bloomsbury Review "Frym turns an unflinching eye on
human interaction, capturing casual and intimate
exchanges...her politically charged narratives are among her
best." -Publisher's
Weekly "Frym's work displays an inexorable
and untarnished ear for human communication-no matter
the dialect or point of view." -Oakland
Tribune "Like any period style, nouveau
abstraction has its exceptional practitioners. Gloria Frym
might turn out to be the best of them. She endows each of
her small self-contained world units with a spherical
perfection-like a Calder mobile so exquisitely made
it will rotate forever." -San Francisco
Chronicle "Frym's voice is fresh, her ear for
dialogue is true, her eye is exact." -American Book
Review "Gloria Frym's poem
sequence-Homeless at Home-comes to us on
wavelengths of darkly humorous lyricism capable of
transmitting states of longing, wonder, and rage at the
injustices of the human polis, with clarity and wit."
-Anselm
Hollo "Homeless at Home is an elevated
triumph. A deeply moving, astutely passionate work of the
highest integrity and poetic presence. These poems not only
grieve the past that was and can never be, but focus with
alacrity on present states of debris and possibility. Their
measured rage and acceptance unfold a stately and alarming
poetry, understated yet overt, compassionate yet resistant.
A deeply intelligent work of profound demand and reward from
a writer of immense principle and engagement." -David
Meltzer Creative Arts Book Company Gloria Frym Gloria Frym's books of poetry
include By Ear, Back to Forth, and Impossible Affection. Her
short story collections are How I Learned and Distance No
Object. Since 1987, she has been a member of the Core
Faculty of the Poetics Program at New College of California
in San Francisco.
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