In This House - by Howard Altmann (Paperback)

About the Book

Large ideas bloom form the elemental, ephemeral, and sublime in Howard Altmann's American debut poetry collection.

Book Synopsis

A meditative interrogation of nature and the modern world with a collection poetry that fashions a refuge out of itself.

Review Quotes

"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. "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

About the Author

Howard Altmann lives in New York City but was born and raised in Montreal where he graduated from McGill. He received his MBA from Stanford University and was Senior VP of W.P. Carey & Co, a boutique real estate investment company. He has taught poetry at a women's prison in Manhattan. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, and others.