Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. HOMELESS AT HOME is a series of letters addressed to a deceased father whose life was shattered and fragmented by war, loss, and economic instability, and further splintered by generational strife and estrangement. With an emotionally complex voice that intercuts global events and personal history, these letters strive to speak with the father, to bring him up to date with "current" events and with the poetic life of the speaker. "Gloria Frym's HOMELESS AT HOME is an elevated triumph. A deeply moving, astutely passionate work of the highest integrity and poetic presence. These poems not only grieve the past that was and can never be, but focus with alacrity on present states of debris and possibility. Their measured rage and acceptance unfold a stately and alarming poetry, understated yet overt, compassionate yet resistant. A deeply intelligent work of profound demand and reward from a writer of immense principle and engagement" - David Meltzer.
About the Author
Gloria Frym (born 1947) is an American poet, fiction writer, and essayist. Born on February 28, 1947 in Brooklyn, NY, she grew up in Los Angeles, CA. She earned her MA and BA degrees at the University of New Mexico, where she studied with the poet Robert Creeley. In the 1980s, Frym taught poetry writing to inmates at the San Francisco County Jails. From 1987 to 2002, she was Core Faculty in the Poetics Program (originally for the poet Robert Duncan) at New College of California. She is Associate Professor in the MFA and BA Writing and Literature programs at California College of the Arts in the Bay Area. Her honors include an American Book Award, a Fund for Poetry Award, and a Creative Work Fund Grant.