Repointing the Bricks

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Repointing the Bricks inhabits and is inhabited. Examining the lasting impression that birthplace can have on those who eventually find refuge elsewhere, Jacqueline Bourque writes from multiple locations - both geographical and bodily - in pursuit of identity. Confident that home is often experienced as addition and subtraction of the self, the poet "sheds new homes regularly" with the knowledge that instability can lead to a reconsideration of how a person is defined. Repointing the Bricks is a remarkable, reorienting debut.