Where Will We Live If the House Burns Down? bookcover

Where Will We Live If the House Burns Down?

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Straddling genres--prose poetry, micro memoir, fairy tale, autofiction--Where Will We Live If the House Burns Down is first and foremost the story of a marriage. Borrowing elements from surrealist writers and artists, it explores the effects of chronic illness, disability, and a spouse's gender transition. All of these issues swirl through the central marital relationship and the daily lives of its two lead characters, Sergeant and Grim--even as the book's narrator, unreliable and unobjective, increasingly takes center stage. Reminiscent as much of contemporary fiction by writers like Sabrina Orah Mark and Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum as of poets or memoirists, this book is as engrossing as it is experimental, traversing complicated difficult domestic and emotional terrain by way of Allison Blevins' vivid imagination.

Product Details

PublisherPersea Books
Publish DateNovember 05, 2024
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780892555956
Dimensions7.8 X 5.3 X 0.4 inches | 0.2 pounds
BISAC Categories: PoetryLGBTQ+, Poetry

About the Author

Allison Blevins is a queer, disabled writer. She received her MA at Pittsburg State University and MFA at Queens University of Charlotte. She is a Lecturer for the Women's Studies Program at Pittsburg State University. She is also a poetry and nonfiction mentor at Middle Tennessee State University. Her work has appeared in such journals as Brevity, Mid-American Review, the minnesota review, and Raleigh Review. She is the author of the hybrid collection Cataloguing Pain (YesYes Books, 2023), the lyric nonfiction collection Handbook for the Newly Disabled: A Lyric Memoir (BlazeVox, 2022), and the poetry collection Slowly/Suddenly (VA Press, 2021).

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