Emily P?rez's House of Sugar, House of Stone weaves Grimm's Fairy Tales into the business of modern life--laptops and late nights with sleepless children--to explore an undercurrent of terror about living in a family. These poems slip between the worlds of the wolf-haunted forest and the harried house of the contemporary artist/parent, until the two blend and bleed into each other. Children learn not to trust their parents, while simultaneously...
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