The house that fire built: poems
Role
Kirk Glaser (Author)
Files
Description
A house a family inherits that fills their nights and days with nightmare visions and haunting events. A house that burns to the ground and leaves them spinning in mysteries. The House That Fire Built tells the story of the poet and his wife seeking healing and insight as they struggle to protect themselves and their young daughter against menacing assaults from the human and supernatural worlds. Even when an arsonist is discovered, the criminal’s story only peels back greater mysteries about the forces circling the house. This house and arsonist possessed by what? And why? Is it hungry ghosts circling the death of a domineering father who died in the house? A secret loss buried by the former owners? Wounds going back to this land taken from the first peoples of California’s Santa Cruz Mountains? What in themselves led them to step into this world? As the couple is pulled deeper into the disturbing and sometimes violent mysteries of this house, their resilience and sense of reality pushed to the limits, they slowly come to see how the forces of destruction may also be a kind of salvation.
ISBN
9781952335990
Publication Date
6-16-2025
Publisher
MadHat Press
Recommended Citation
Glaser, Kirk, "The house that fire built: poems" (2025). Faculty Book Gallery. 665.
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/faculty_books/665
