In These Houses

Review Beauty The Bone-step Women Clarissa Consuela Elvena Fly Away Home Geography The Godchild The House House Of Bones House Of Mercies How I Became The Blues In These Houses Of Swift Easy Women Letter Home Little Eugenia's Lover The Old Women On Burgundy Street Portrait Sister And The Shadowman Speaking Of Trains: Incognito: Woman In Blue Speaking Of Trains: Movement 2: How To Meet The Train Speaking Of Trains: South Train Study, Movement 1 Thelma The Wastrel-woman Poem -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® From Library Journal There is more to the poems than the title reveals; the first poem is actually called "In These Houses of Swift Easy Women." The houses are fineLouisiana lush, they have come through generations, and generations have come through them. But it is the women moving through them that matter. "All you see and hear in me/ is these women/ walking in the middle of the road/ with their hoodoo in their hands." Young and old, soft and hard, they have all learned something, and now they teach. Their stories weave a wonderful cloth, the voices lapping and overlapping. In the houses they inhabit, "a man could get lost." Even so, he could gain a lot. Louis McKee, Judge Sch., PhiladelphiaCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.