This is a new collection by local poet Mariela Griffor that looks at her native country of Chile.House is a love affair between the poet and Chile. While making real the struggles of war and the alienation that accompanies the immersion in a new culture, Griffor also conveys the beauty and nostalgia she feels for her home country. She commands our attention, and we share her sadness, compassion, anger and hope.Influenced greatly by the American lyric tradition, Griffor's poems play softly and skillfully; the smooth strum lingers in the readers ears. House transcends the terrible and sordid hell of our sociopolitical everyday to penetrate into territories of moving sands, zones where the imagination leaves the body's prison to lead us to new experiences, subtle, hopeful, contradictory, and in the end, very human.