Bibliograph

Safe houses I have known, Steve Healey

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Safe houses I have known, Steve Healey

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Safe houses I have known

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Steve Healey

Summary

As a child during the height of the Cold War, Steve Healey learns that his father is a spy for the CIA. Beneath the banality of everyday life-the suburbs of Washington, DC; school and play; his parents' deteriorating marriage-assumed names, parallel lives, and myriad Cold War menaces linger. Drawing from CIA training manuals and pop culture references alike, Healey's poetry is both intimate and claustrophobic. In these poems, the natural anxiety of childhood is compounded by the weight of both national and family secrets, and Healey draws deep parallels between the shaky foundations of truth in his past and the paranoia and obfuscation that envelops our nation's present

Target audience

adult

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