Poetry. "In this collection of poems, Pamela Alexander explores the earth and its elements. The fire of the title is most explicitly the body's slow burn, cell-fire; but the book itself burns with an urgency that is both expansive and deep. Packed with linguistic delights and surprises that leave no room for the reading mind to go slack, the book begins with grief and moves through a wide range of human emotion that includes genuinely witty responses to love both lost and found, exploration and deliberate disorientation of the personal and linguistic self, and outrage at the materialism of American culture. But the most compelling movement of the book lies in its increasingly profound dialogue with the earth itself"-Martha Collins.
Author City: Cleveland, OH USA