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Seasonal Works With Letters On Fire
Brenda Hillman
Wesleyan University Press
September 2013
On Sale: August 22, 2013
108 pages
ISBN: 0819574147
EAN: 9780819574145
Kindle: B00EOGT79Q
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Fiction Poetry
Fire-- its physical, symbolic, political, and spiritual
forms--is the fourth and final subject in Brenda Hillman's
masterful series on the elements. Her previous
volumes--Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Practical
Water--have addressed earth, air, and water. Here, Hillman
evokes fire as metaphor and as event to chart subtle changes
of seasons during financial breakdown, environmental crisis,
and street movements for social justice; she gathers factual
data, earthly rhythms, chants to the dead, journal entries,
and lyric fragments in the service of a radical animism. In
the polyphony of Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, the
poet fuses the visionary, the political, and the personal to
summon music and fire at once, calling the reader to be
alive to the senses and to re-imagine a common life. This is
major work by one of our most important writers.
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