| Fire & Flower Contributor(s): Kasischke, Laura (Author) |
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ISBN: 1882295218 ISBN-13: 9781882295210 Publisher: Alice James Books OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1998 Annotation: Poetry. Three sections often poems each, which revel in the gorgeous possibilities of language even as they acknowledge the impossibility of language to contain the things it describes: "But there will always be/storms & gray//that settle on their shoulders blurred as sparrows//before they fly away. Seasons/and the names for them will change" (from "A is for Almost"). "Kasischke's world...is a world in which grace and horror, beauty and carnage, tragedy and hilarity commingle" (Harvard Review). Kasischke is the author of two previous collections of poems, Wild Brides and Housekeeping In A Dream, and the novel Suspicious River. She has been the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and currently teaches at Washtenaw Community College in Michigan. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 98014218 |
| Physical Information: 0.24" H x 5.52" W x 8.49" (0.27 lbs) 80 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The poems in Fire & Flower are about the images that hold the world together in the mind of a child, a woman, and the mother she becomes. The metaphors used to describe their lives are mysterious and frightening, and they accumulate in this collection as a full expression of the awe that makes us all live. |