House of Fact, House of Ruin by Tom Sleigh is a collection of poems in parts about contemporary and some historical landscapes of war and its consequences across and intersecting along those landscapes. Many of these poems were inspired by the poet’s trip to Libya in the spring of 2014. The research component is largely personal experience but also comes from interviews and other reading. Some of Sleigh’s poems are in conversation with other poems poets and writers, including Walt Whitman, Brigit Kelly, and classical literature. The poems put the political in direct connection with the personal, shifting scale from global concern to more private, personal concerns. The poems are mostly in free verse, in sequences or series, and there is one prose section in the book in the form of a short lyric essay. Notes with source-citations and other sources of inspiration for the poems at the back of the book.
Purchase: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781555977979?aff=GraywolfWebsite
Review: https://www.kenyonreview.org/reviews/house-of-fact-house-of-ruin-by-tom-sleigh-738439/
Read the title poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/58851/house-of-fact-house-of-ruin
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