Dummy FireWinner of the 2006 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize selected by Forrest Gander, this is poet Sarah Vap's first full-length poetry collection. Dummy Fire is a book full of surprises, its arms wide enough to encircle, it seems, all of creation, from the deeply personal to the existential. In Sarah Vap's debut book a mother's nose bleeds into tomato soup and a great blue heron is vivisected on a dinner table. There is nothing she is afraid to say. "Sarah Vap," writes Forrest Gander, "combines an utterly unsentimental domestic tenderness with an attentiveness to the lives of plants and animals that never approaches 'nature poetry' because it never seems separated from that realm." And Norman Dubie adds, "she is brilliant and something entirely new under our sun." |
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... eyes swollen and smears him on her body not knowing how she intends to live . So shows him something pollen , a powerful arm , and vodka souring his balls . Nothing left but oldness , she shifts his skin like a lover . With all this ...
... eyes swollen and smears him on her body not knowing how she intends to live . So shows him something pollen , a powerful arm , and vodka souring his balls . Nothing left but oldness , she shifts his skin like a lover . With all this ...
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... baby . The fish - farm . And yes , around baby . Babies that scent our throats . Throats the color of the lion's eyes . Guess it , apologists to measure donkey - knockers on cranes , and the 13 Paper tigers, paper snowflakes.
... baby . The fish - farm . And yes , around baby . Babies that scent our throats . Throats the color of the lion's eyes . Guess it , apologists to measure donkey - knockers on cranes , and the 13 Paper tigers, paper snowflakes.
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... feet leaving . Brother whose features- water moving over legs , icelight that snaps in the ears . Ice in the eyes . If you see him in the shaved field of safe cows , pull stones over him . i . Under the Window, a Square of Light.
... feet leaving . Brother whose features- water moving over legs , icelight that snaps in the ears . Ice in the eyes . If you see him in the shaved field of safe cows , pull stones over him . i . Under the Window, a Square of Light.
Contents
Everything Offered Happens 3+51 | 3 |
A Christmas Poem | 9 |
Eventide | 15 |
Copyright | |
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