The House of Nobody Home - Paperback

by Diane Kistner (Editor), Nancy Carol Moody (Author)

"What we keep hidden. / The gape we leave for it to slip through." Nancy Carol Moody's second collection of poems is rich with the contradictions inherent in the living of a full and human life. The House of Nobody Home is a conversation with self and the world, a safe-house for the smallest or largest interrogation of what is familiar or unknown or unknowable. Moody draws us into an existence fraught with precariousness-"Right now your feet could be straddling a fault line"-not to instill fear of the unnamed, but to bring into light that which has been present all along-"It stood here all this time, / waiting, as it was bound to wait." Employing language as exacting as it is humane, The House of Nobody Home is a truth-telling, yet hopeful, exploration into our deepest selves.

Author Biography

Nancy Carol Moody is the author of the full-length collection, Photograph with Girls, and her 8-poem chapbook, Mermaid, was published as part of the Infinities Series from Tiger's Eye Press. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies including The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Los Angeles Review, Nimrod, and Best Indie Lit New England, Vol. 2. Nancy lives and writes in Eugene, Oregon.