A review by pyrrhicspondee
Many-Storied House by George Ella Lyon

3.0

I feel bad giving this three stars because it pretty much made me weep at the end. The last section, all about the whole house and Lyon's mom dying, was AWESOME. A few individual poems were equally moving or odd, like "Kitchen Table" and the one about the linen closet. But overall, the plainspokenness of these poems--which I acknowledge is essential to the entire artistic project--left me unimpressed.