From accomplished writer Ken Sparling comes a spare verse novel about a girl and a boy and the life they're writing together. But the girl wants a story and the boy wants a poem, and the furniture in the house is stuck in the middle. Meditative and magical, a book as complicated as the ways we love, This Poem Is a House is, in the end, about a girl's story sheltering a boy's poem, the way a house shelters the lives of the people who live in it. Ken Sparling has written six novels, including Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall (Knopf, 1996), commissioned by Gordon Lish. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
- ISBN13 9781552453346
- Publish Date 7 July 2016 (first published 2 May 2016)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Coach House Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 96
- Language English