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suddenflamingword's review
3.0
A compelling coincidence is that Thin Fire is also a brand of kiln paper. In a broad sense, Thin Fire the book is performing the same balance - preventing a fragile glass from latching onto and breaking off on the kiln shelf, revealing its fragile appearance to belie its characteristic endurance. It's, in short, the contrast between loving yourself, loving, and being loved. The opening poem, "The Book Is A Hungry Darkness," contains the lines:
My mother sends my wife her love.
In all of this, forgiveness
assumes sin and I'm not sorry.
The Book? "My wife" beside "assumes sin"? This is a collection of combat poems, a passive combat, struggling to preserve what is born fragile and faces the violence of assumption how heat assumes pottery out of clay.
My mother sends my wife her love.
In all of this, forgiveness
assumes sin and I'm not sorry.
The Book? "My wife" beside "assumes sin"? This is a collection of combat poems, a passive combat, struggling to preserve what is born fragile and faces the violence of assumption how heat assumes pottery out of clay.
ariereads's review
4.0
8th poetry collection/chapbook for August (and I missed a day for the closing of my graduating MVA exhibition and ensuing celebrations so now the numbers don't match up with the days, oops)
and this one is lovely - a beautiful digital object that I also wish I could hold to read.
"I made the rug my friend by looking at it so long
weaving and unweaving it with my eyes"
(from OPEN THE BOX THAT HOLDS A FIRE)
and this one is lovely - a beautiful digital object that I also wish I could hold to read.
"I made the rug my friend by looking at it so long
weaving and unweaving it with my eyes"
(from OPEN THE BOX THAT HOLDS A FIRE)
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