In My Father's House

John Hodgen is Writer in Residence at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the author of four previous books of poetry: In My Father's House, winner of the Bluestem Award; Bread Without Sorrow, winner of the Balcones Poetry Prize; Grace, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry; and Heaven & Earth Holding Company, a 2011 Massachusetts Book Award winner. Hodgen is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Grolier Prize, the Foley Poetry Prize, the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, an Arvon Foundation Award, the Chad Walsh Prize, and inclusion in Best American Poetry 2017.

In My Father's House is a tender book made of tough-voiced poems, that voice tested by loss, educated by it and resolved to live with the uncanny wonder of it.