In The Ninth House explores the minute and magical detail of life. Many of these poems are personal, where the author resurrects ghosts and travels with them. As poet Anne Stevenson says of the poems, "they are personal in a good way." Travel, a theme important to the astrological Ninth House, is everywhere in the collection. From a lakeside summer cottage in Finland to the mountainous landscape of Bhutan, from Goya's Andalucia to Van Gogh's Arles, we gain new perspectives on places both ordinary and strange.