Occasioned by the birth of a first child and originally spoken aloud into a digital audio recorder on the poet’s long commute between the art museum where he worked and his home in a neighborhood burned in the Witch Creek Fire of 2007, each of the poems in Patrick Coleman’s first book resists the confusions of twenty-first-century parenthood, marriage, art, and commerce. By turns conversational and anxious, metaphysical and self-mocking, celebratory yet permeated by an awareness of life’s flickering ephemerality, Fire Season is a search for gratitude among reasons to be afraid—and proof that a person can pass through the fires and come out the other side alive.
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Product details

ISBN
9781946482150
Published
2018-12-01
Publisher
Tupelo Press, Incorporated
Weight
200 gr
Height
229 mm
Width
178 mm
Thickness
10 mm
Age
P, G, 06, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
112