Memory House by Carolyn Zonailo
What poetry should do is to enter into the spiritual. The poems in Memory House reveal moments of “magic” sensibility, when the division between reader and poem is transcended, the barriers collapsed, and conscious thoughts transformed into poetic consciousness. This luminosity in the poem is a gift to the reader—offering spiritual insight that shakes us out of a normal way of thinking. Zonailo’s landscape poems are not really about landscape per se, but about inner landscape and psychological perception.
The poems in Memory House evoke a time of innocence, a child’s vision of the world. They describe experiences that are rooted in a specific point in family and history, while encompassing a universal time of growing up.
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