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.

 

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.