Room Where I Get What I Want
A house echoes with the footfalls of wild men running behind the walls in S. Whitney Holmes’s debut collection, Room Where I Get What I Want. Here in the house that is not a house, Holmes destabilizes the architectural structure by relishing in the details: a German man builds a mnemonic castle, a hero swallows a tulip bulb, and a woman opens a book to place in its hollowed center a gun. Debating space and intimacy, power and pleasure, Holmes constructs a spellbinding education as erotically charged as it is dangerous.
S. Whitney Holmes was born and raised in West Virginia. She earned an MFA from the University of Alabama and currently works as an editor. She is the executive director of Switchback Books, and her poems have appeared in such journals as the Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, Barrelhouse, Poetry Northwest, and Ninth Letter. Her chapbook, Method of Loci, was published by Dancing Girl Press.
