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Soul House, Paperback / softback Book

Soul House Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Gansel opens this meditative volume of 53 prose poems with an epigraph from Gaston Bachelard: 'against all odds, the house invites us to say: I will be a citizen of the world despite the world.' In these war-torn days of refugees fleeing to Europe, Gansel strives to describe what we have in common, creating a crossroads of people, places, and languages she has loved.

For Gansel, a poet rebuilding her 'soul house,' every word is a building block.

At the same time that she welcomes the stranger to her lost house, poetry is her weapon - 'these migrant poems from all languages, these smuggled words that no border can stop' - with which to fight persecution and exile.

Sophie Ehrsam wrote, 'The 'soul house' is anything that harbors a glimmer, a hope, including an open door or an outstretched hand.'

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