No Place Like Home

Closed, opens at 11amIndependent shop in MagnoliaDirections

Available from Studio Antalya when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Whether inhabited or remembered, whether solitary or teeming with family, whether a refuge from the world or a connection to a community, home is essential to the self. The poems in this anthology invite us into urban apartments and cozy cottages, stately mansions and hermits’ huts. We watch a medieval housewife explain how she has spent her day; we join with Robert Herrick as he gives thanks for his “humble roof . . . weatherproof”; we peep in on Amy Lowell in the bath and John Donne in his bed