My Father's House warps, into a single thread of memory and myth, the author's earliest years growing up in the house of his father, just returned from service in World War II. Kinnear was the winner of Fine Madness' 2003 Nelson Bentley prize. He is the author of 'A Walk in Bardo' (Blue Begonia Press 2008), 'Heart Range' (Raven Chronicles), 'Shale Eyes' and "The Great Wheel (Taurolog / Chatwin, 2015).
My Father's House warps, into a single thread of memory and myth, the author's earliest years growing up in the house of his father, just returned ...
Kinnear charts the map from Herakleitos to Pound, Freud to Derrida, Celan, Rilke, Joyce. This is a text like no other, divining the naming and un-naming of things from zero through infinity in the way of the philosopher-poets. Alternating contemplations on immensities with crystalline poems that begin each chapter, spoked with Kinnear's translations of Heraclitus, and spun with the dreams of memory, it's a book to reach for again and again. We journey through memory/dream, chance/love, sleep/death, reason/no-reason, meaning/unmeaning, Khora at the gates of the unsayable, 'vast as the cosmos...
Kinnear charts the map from Herakleitos to Pound, Freud to Derrida, Celan, Rilke, Joyce. This is a text like no other, divining the naming and un-nami...
