A Meditation on Fire - Softcover

Allen, Jason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0996259651 ISBN 13: 9780996259651

Publisher: Southeast Missouri State Univ Press, 2016

Synopsis

“Jason Allen’s A Meditation on Fire is a fierce, courageous collection of poems, a ferocious, yet meditative mission to dig for the truth beneath the surface of all that it means to be human. Allen’s poetry is gritty and lyrical, profound and sardonic, and his use of language is as precise as a scalpel. Allen is willing to risk being vulnerable while exploring the darkest moments of his life, and all the while he straddles the line between compassion and desire. A must read for anyone who loves poetry, and for those who don’t yet know they love poetry. What an amazing, powerful book!” —Maria Mazziotti Gillan, American Book Award Winner

About this title

About the Author:

Jason Allen writes fiction, poetry, and memoir, and is the author of the forthcoming novel The East End (Park Row Books/HarperCollins) and the poetry collection A Meditation on Fire (Southeast Missouri State University Press). He has an MFA from Pacific University and a PhD in literature and creative writing from Binghamton University. His work has been published in: Passages North, Paterson Literary Review, Contemporary American Voices, Cream City Review, Ragazine, The Molotov Cocktail, and many other venues. He's taught in China, and done at least a dozen coast-to-coast drives across the U.S. He'd like to meet Tom Waits someday and buy him a cup of coffee. He was born in the Green Mountains of Vermont and spent the first year of his life in a log cabin, and then grew up working-class-poor in the Hamptons. He will forever think of Powell's Books in downtown Portland as a sacred space. He currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he teaches writing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Southeast Missouri State Univ Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0996259651
• ISBN 13: 9780996259651
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72