The necessity of wildfire /
"Winner of the Wren Poetry Prize selected by final judge Ada LimoÌ?n, Caitlin Scarano's second full-length collection is The Necessity of Wildfire. It begins, "To not harm / each other is not enough. I want to love you / so much that you have no before." These poems chase a singu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Durham, North Carolina]:
Blair,
[2022]
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| Summary: | "Winner of the Wren Poetry Prize selected by final judge Ada LimoÌ?n, Caitlin Scarano's second full-length collection is The Necessity of Wildfire. It begins, "To not harm / each other is not enough. I want to love you / so much that you have no before." These poems chase a singular, thorny question: how does where and who we came from shape who and how we love? Judge Ada LimoÌ?n says the resulting collection is "hungry, clear-eyed, tough, and generous." Though originally from the South, Scarano's imagination is galvanized by the Pacific Northwest-floods and wildfires, the Salish Sea and the North Cascades, and the humans and animals whose lives intersect and collide there. In this collection, Scarano reckons with a legacy of violence on both sides of her family, the death of her estranged father, the unraveling of two long-term relationships, the complexity of sexuality, and her decision not to have children. With fierce lyricality, these poems--"stories without monsters, / stories without morals"--resist both redemption and blame, yet call in mercy"-- |
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| Item Description: | Place of publication from publisher's website. |
| Physical Description: | 78 pages ; 18 cm |
| Awards: | Winner of the Wren Poetry Prize |
| ISBN: | 9781949467789 1949467783 |