Seasonal Works With Letters On Fire
by Brenda Hillman
Buy on Amazon"Fire--its physical, symbolic, political, and spiritual forms--is the fourth and final subject in Brenda Hillman's masterful series on the elements. Her previous volumes--Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Practical Water--have addressed earth, air, and water. Here, Hillman evokes fire as metaphor and as event to chart subtle changes of seasons during financial breakdown, environmental crisis, and street movements for social justice; she gathers factual data, earthly rhythms, chants to the dead, journal entries, and lyric fragments in the service of a radical animism.…
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"Activism pervades Brenda Hillman’s work, nowhere more than in this collection — the fourth and final installment in her series of elemental meditations (previous books have treated air, water and earth). Here, she gathers not only jumpy, experimental lyrics but also scraps of occasional prose and images — anything that will help her make the case that the world is a mess and it’s up to us to fix it."
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