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Synopsis
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.
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About the Author
Laura Kasischke attended the University of Michigan and Columbia University. She teaches writing at Washtenaw Community College in Michigan. She has been the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bobst Award for Emerging Writers.
Review
"As a poetry of the entangled passionate and familial tragedies that poets in postwar America have opted to write into the public record, I have found no collection of poems more moving or profoundly aware or skilled with intensity and restraint than this one." -- Michigan Quarterly Review
"Kasischke's world...is a world in which grace and horror, beauty and carnage, tragedy and hilarity commingle." -- Harvard Review
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The Admiral
The Baby Learns To Say Baby
Bad News
Barney
Burial
Cabbage
The Cause Of All My Suffering
Confections
Dear Air
Dear Earth
Dear Fire
Dear Water
Do Not Leave Baby Unattended
Fire & Flower
Galaxy
Gas Chamber At San Quentin
Gray, As Flowers
Greenland Mummy, Infant
Her Purse
Hostess
Infants Corner
A Is For Almost
A Long Commute
Prayer
Pregnant At The All-night Supermarket
The Tarred & Feathered Heart
What I Hear In Your Hair
Wolves
The World's Largest Living Thing
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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- PublisherAlice James Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1882295218
- ISBN 13 9781882295210
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages80
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