A House Undone

Praise for A House UndoneIn T. Clears exquisite debut collection A House Undone we consider what home is. From a house of scant beginnings...raveling sweaters/and unpainted stairwells to the bodies we inhabit to roaming the frozen fields...small enough to enter a honeyed hive these striking and precise poems lead us through the hallways of the temporary. Whether the wife/wanted out of the couplet or beneath a sky scrubbed-clean of mudsock grey Clear is a master of the image the narrative arc and the details of a story. Well-crafted engaging and constructed with meticulous care A House Undone becomes the beautiful architecture for poetry where we live in a house of words on a bed littered with leaves /starlight for a roof.-Kelli Russell Agodon author of Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press)Not only is T. Clears A House Undone the most downright enjoyable book of poetry Ive read in a good while its also got me seriously stirred about house and home. These poems turn personal loss and uprootedness into a highly contagious empathy for those whose dwellings we couldnt call houses. This poet has me laughing out loud then achingly sad and outraged by quick turns through her pages. The book is so right for this American moment but the truth is its right for all history everywhere.-Jed Myers author of Watching the Perseids and The Marriage of Space and Time