{"title":"Ann Scowcroft","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"truth-of-houses-book-ann-scowcroft-9781926829678","title":"The Truth of Houses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems exploring the idea of home and the difficulties of a deeply ambiguous relationship to that word.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt once wise and achingly at a loss, Ann Scowcroft's \u003ci\u003eThe Truth of Houses\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegant and honest 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"All of which is to say: the houses aren't fooled\u003cbr\u003e the houses know the five truths\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe truth of light: you will see before you understand\u003cbr\u003e The truth of motion: escape is an illusion\u003cbr\u003e The truth of trees: your busy life will dissolve into the soil\u003cbr\u003e The truth of windows: what protects can also maim\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe truth of peace:\u003cbr\u003e despite all the other truths\u003cbr\u003e knowing will come to you wearing one hundred faces\u003cbr\u003e contain you as once you contained your\u003cbr\u003e own blood\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--from \"The Truth of Houses\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":67615452954897,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":67615453905169,"sku":"NLS9781926829678","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781926829678.jpg?v=1790905969"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-ann-scowcroft.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}