A Family Is a House
Pearson's debut introduced us to a master transmogrifier. In this surreal, follow-up collection he investigates the architectural implications of inheritance— how the human body houses the violence of its forebears. "A Family is a House" is a blueprint, a guide to the logical structures and spaces we build in our minds: sometimes to keep our secrets in, sometimes to keep the horrors out.
Pearson offers us an answer to the toughest question: What happens when our secrets are our horrors? We build, compartmentalize and quarantine. We refract, reflect, demolish and burn. This is a book about the oldest partition — that thin wall between the dark and the light.
Bio
Dustin Pearson graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Arizona State University in 2017.
Praise for this book
This is a book about bravery, about severing oneself from a lineage of abuse. When the hands that feed us also beat us, we must beat them back with the gifts we've been given. Through Pearson, we relearn that language can be weaponized into a kind of magic that saves us.
Brandon Rushton
This book is an incredible, visceral experience from one of the most striking and necessary voices in poetry today.
Glenn Shaheen
