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The House Has Teeth
Paperback
Publisher Price: $20.95
ISBN13: 9781967149001
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: Sep 8 2026
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In The House Has Teeth, award-winning poet Aldo Amparán offers a profound rumination on violence, trauma, and how the spaces meant to protect us can become the most insidious. How can we make sense of deep pain that was caused by an event we can hardly remember?
Influenced by fever dreams, horror movies, and ghost stories, the poems of this second collection eloquently articulate the way in which people who have been traumatized can carry a violence within themselves. Speakers grapple with an internal unrest that simmers long after the initial wound, becoming attuned to the subtle alarms sounding around them that go unheard by others.
In these pages, nightmares become a vehicle for deeper understanding as Amparán investigates how we learn to live with trauma--how we hold onto it, and how it holds onto us; how it haunts us like a ghost. Lyrical and steeped in surrealism, The House Has Teeth asks whether it's possible to ever escape-- to unknow--such violence. To transcend it. To reach toward love.
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