Theory for Moving Houses City & Town Life the narrator describes her childhood

the narrator describes her childhood as the daughter of a member of the right-wing Finnish Whites before World War II

all partaking in steam and sweat

A divisive magic

and utterly fascinating Alaska Young

Theory for Moving Houses City & Town Life the narrator describes her childhoodYou are asking me where I live and it's making me think all these things about space, where I start and end in space and where space starts and ends in me and when, in space, I am a body and when I'm a book, in space. So begins Renee Gladman's Theory for Moving Houses, and with these lines we are invited into a liminal space of imagination and investigation, as Gladman guides us through the architectures of her poetics. Foundational here is a sense of