# The House with Only an Attic and a Basement

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- Authors: [Kathryn Maris](https://www.bookquiver.com/kathryn-maris)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4198-658-6
- Published: 2018-05-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'But back to the summer day the spike grazed my brother's scalp: I slept beside him in his racing car bed and my father woke me and slapped my face, thinking, I assume, of sex, whereas I was already thinking about death.' Urban, suburban, sharply observant, now obsessive and now urbane, the poems in Kathryn Maris's third book range with a dry wit over such subjects as parenthood, marriage, adultery, the politics of children's sports contests, female prison and psychoanalysis. The House with Only an Attic and a Basement is that rare thing: a darkly funny collection of poems that courses with keen intelligence, yet wears its learning lightly so that it is a pleasure to stride along with every poem.