Home is where the heart is, or, in the case of The Sink House, home
is what the heart is. Sequestered on a sleepy street in a dry
Calgary suburb, our heroine, the House, finds herself embroiled in
a stalled love affair with an elusive and alluring Oxfordshire
riverbank. In a series of self-contained poems both prosy and
lyrical, we follow this curious and engaging affair, which
mysteriously coincides with a slow and gradual flood. Everything
succumbs to the persistent rise of water: the street becomes a
creek bed, wallpaper comes away in the night, sandbags melt,
kitchen utensils become silt. Here, the furniture floats, flowers
become fish that feed in the garden on vegetables that explode with
damp. Through it all, our lovers persist, salvaging soap boats and
flushing toilets for amusement. Intelligent, enigmatic, sometimes
humorous, and always enticing, The Sink House is a long, eccentric
love poem that will immerse you in the flood of its own desire. 'If
only the imagination were real. Story seems to think so. And so
does Julia Williams. Here, image (hear the image) beautifully
choreographs the story into a readable imagination that is a
measure of syllabic and rhythmic particulars, a language,
thankfully, balanced, open and with surprise. In other words, a
poetry that makes seeming so.' -- Fred Wah
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