Hoarder

Hoarder is an autobiographical collection of prose poems, quoted material, photographs, concrete poetry, and an essay that meditates on various levels of accumulation as both a destructive and constructive form of human behavior. At the center of the work is the story of the author's family home, which was full of hoarded objects until a house fire burned it down. The work as a whole contemplates the traumatic experience of loss and represents an attempt to understand and redeem the hoard's loss when the damage is cleared away.