Description

In this warm and witty story a young woman gets swept up in the rivalries and love affairs of a dramatic group of writers

Carla is stuck In her twenties and working for a landscaper shes been told shes on the wrong path by everyonefrom her mom who wants her to work at the hospital to her boyfriend who is dropping notsosubtle hints that she should be doing something that matters

Then she is hired for a job at the home of Viridian a lauded and lovely aging poet who introduces Carla to an eccentric circle of writers At first she is perplexed by their predilection for reciting lines in conversation the stories of their many liaisons their endless winesoaked nights Soon though she becomes enamored with this entire world with Viridian whose reputation has been defined by her infamous affair with a male poet Mathias with Viridians circle and especially with the power of words the ache and hunger that can both be awakened and soothed by a poem a hunger that Carla feels sharply When a fight emerges over a vital cache of poems that Mathias wrote about Viridian Carla gets drawn in But how much will she sacrifice for a group that may or may not see her as one of their own

A delightfully funny look at the art worldsometimes petty sometimes transactional sometimes transformative The Poets House is also a refreshingly candid story of finding ones way with words as our lantern in the dark