Glass Cabin

GLASS CABIN chronicles the thirteen years Tina Mozelle Braziel and James Braziel spent building their home out of secondhand tin, tornado-snapped power poles, and church glass on a ridge in rural Alabama. Their alternating voices support one another like parts of their cabin—every board needs its nail, every window needs its frame. These poems explore the work it takes to measure cuts for stairs, to haul water — one ton at a time — up the side of the mountain, and to write. It reads as a meditation on hope, on frustration, and on people’s places in the wilder parts of the world.  

“… this book ostensibly teaches us how to survive by our own strong hands. And what more important guide could there be, in this time of climate change and structural upheaval? I’ll tell you. It is this book’s remarkable revelations about interdependence that makes it a work of art, both beautiful and needed. Much like their house, this book is built—at every joint and beam—in a structure of collaboration. Here is a guide for how to surrender to a love for all living beings, a love that radically transforms our understanding of
the word self, the word profit, of the word wealth.” —Rebecca Gayle Howell

REVIEWS:

Southern Literary Review

Alabama Writers’ Forum

The Daily Yonder

ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS:

UAB Magazine