Cultural Writing. Essays. BLUE HOUSE is an elliptical travelogue of one poet's movement through continents and encounters with Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Octavio Paz, Susan Sontag, Tomas Transtromer, and others, while also touching on the everyday life of an exile who has lived in seven different countries since 1989. Beyond this basic framework, BLUE HOUSE reads as a series of poetic sketches that subtly redefine concepts of nation, family, and literary genre.