Safe Houses I Have Known
This is Steve’s third collection with CHP, and we’re excited that this book continues to show off Steve’s adeptness with current events/culture and wordplay but is much more personal in scope and tone.
Steve does an excellent job drawing in references to popular culture, from CIA training manuals to Spy vs. Spy, situating his poems almost viscerally in a time and place.
This book provides an interesting backdrop against which to examine certain kinds of white male paranoia currently on display in the US and adds to the political and cultural discourse in surprising ways.
Steve Healey is the author of two previous books of poetry, 10 Mississippi and Earthling, both from Coffee House Press. His poems have been published in magazines such as American Poetry Review, the Awl, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Jubilat, and in anthologies, most recently The New Census: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. He’s a professor of English and creative writing at Minneapolis College.
