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About -Kirk Glaser
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​​KIRK GLASER is a poet and prose writer whose work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in publications including The San Francisco Chronicle, The Threepenny Review, Nimrod, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Catamaran. His poetry collection, The House That Fire Built, just published by MadHat Press, was a finalist for the University of Tampa Press Award and Ashland Poetry Press Publication Prize. Awards for his work include a New Millennium Writings Contest Finalist, American Academy of Poets Prize, University of California Poet Laureate Award, Gertrude Stein Fiction Award Finalist, and Richard Eberhart Poetry Award. A Teaching Professor at Santa Clara University, he serves as Director of the Creative Writing Program and Faculty Advisor to the Santa Clara Review.
Artist Statement
"Word by word, breath by breath, striving for understanding and connection across boundaries and experience.
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The House That Fire Built takes you on a journey into a haunting: A house possessed by a mysterious suffering. A house where a father dies whose actions fed the madness and death of wife and sons. A house a family enters to be caught in this web of inheritance, their nights and days consumed by nightmare visions and haunting events until it burns to the ground and leaves them spinning in mysteries.
The House That Fire Built is a true-life tale about a family struggling against menacing assaults from the human and supernatural worlds. Even when an arsonist is discovered, his life and actions only peel back greater mysteries about the forces circling the house. This house and man possessed by hungry ghosts circling the death of a domineering father who died there? A secret loss buried by the former owners? Wounds going back to when the land was taken from the first peoples of California’s Santa Cruz Mountains?
As the couple is pulled deeper into the disturbing and sometimes violent mysteries of this house, they slowly come to see how the forces of destruction may also be a means of salvation sparing them from a worse fate.