The HOUSE OF SONG

''May strike faithful readers as his best... Written in stair-step triplets or faux blank verse, unrhymed, perfectly voiced, these are riveting expository pieces about the miracles of living -- alone, in a community, as a creature among creatures, and as bodies among spirits.'' -- Booklist ''Wagoner unfailingly makes words that do what the world does... In 'The House of Song,' he is at his best. His words are a living link to the world, enacting it so vitally that they feel like natural facts.'' -- Richard Wakefield, The Seattle Times ''[Wagoner] insures that no person, no creature, no plant goes without a poem inscribing something especially characteristic of it... And that wherever one looks in the world there is something interesting, amusing, or touching, worthy of record.'' -- Virginia Quarterly Review