# Kissing Other People or the House of Fame

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- Book: [Kissing Other People or the House of Fame](https://www.bookquiver.com/kay-gabriel/kissing-other-people-or-the-house-of-fame) ([Kissing Other People or the House of Fame.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kay-gabriel/kissing-other-people-or-the-house-of-fame.md))
- Authors: [Kay Gabriel](https://www.bookquiver.com/kay-gabriel)
- Publisher: Nightboat Books
- ISBN: 978-16-4362-179-1
- Pages: 80
- Published: 2023-05-18
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A book in two halves, Kissing Other People or the House of Fame opens with a sequence of poems that roam the grotty, sublime streets: patting rats, reading pamphlets, enduring labour, acquiring falafel, waving to friends. Then the book flips on a seam and invokes Chaucer as an unlikely guide through a series of dream-blocks, each autonomous yet resonant with attachments and perversions as they come and go, repeat and echo. The book is as staunch as it is warm – one arm extended in a hug and the other cupped over the mouth to shield a secret (weapon).