In This House, Howard Altmann

In This House

Howard Altmann

Publisher: Turtle Point Press
PubDate: 4/1/2010
ISBN: 9781933527338
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: $15.95
Quantity Available: 38
Pages: 96
 

Poetry. "Howard Altmann interrogates the sky, the light, the world, about their intentions. If he seldom finds reassuring answers, he finds something better: 'When all that consoled consoles no longer / loneliness finds a room inside the one it knows.' These poems are as essential as a glass of water"--John Ashbery. Poems from IN THIS HOUSE have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, New England Review, and Open City.

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Howard Altmann lives in New York City but he was born and raised in Montreal, Canada, where he graduated from McGill University. He received his MBA from Stanford University and worked as senior vice president of a real estate investment company. He has taught poetry at a women's prison in Manhattan, and he has written children's stories and plays. He is the author of The Johnsons and The Thompsons, which was published by Playscripts, Inc., in 2008.



"Howard Altmann has found a music all his own, a glissando of what Stevens calls 'sudden rightnesses' whirling from the page."
—Carol Muske-Dukes

"Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one of his quietly amazing lines—'you ask the silence to invert itself / like a gymnast in the dark...' Without a trace of rhetoric, In This House reminds us of the power of poetry: to show us how to live in a world in which we are strangers. It's a thrill to come close to such an original and deeply realized art."
—Dennis Nurkse

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