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As One Fire Consumes Another
John Sibley Williams
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Belletristik / Lyrik, Dramatik
Beschreibung
Winner of The 2018 Orison Poetry Prize, selected by Vandana Khanna
What happens when metaphysics and social critique meet? Poetry that has to find a new form to express the tension it embodies. John Sibley Williams’ newspaper-like columns in As One Fire Consumes Another do just that. Here, transcendent vision and trenchant social insight meet, wrestle, and end up revitalizing one another.
"John Sibley Williams confronts the violent side of American history and its effect on our notions of self, fatherhood, and citizenship. […] The poems, which veer from elegiac to declarative to prayerlike, drill down into the beliefs and fears that underpin this violence." –Poets & Writers
"John Sibley Williams’ collection As One Fire Consumes Another transcends beyond the boundaries of family and history and country, beyond the body’s tragedies, the 'silenced bones of others.' These poems rise as invocation, as testimonial to life’s unfiltered beauty, violence, and faith, to the 'light . . . already in us.'” –Vandana Khanna, judge of The 2018 Orison Poetry Prize
"If America’s collective conscience is at war, the wounds and battle scars are in full display in John Sibley Williams’ arresting book. No matter how dream-like, no matter how nightmarish or surreal, its startling landscapes reveal accurate truths about our country’s dark humanity. Poem after poem, the strange elegance of As One Fire Consumes Another is remarkable and daunting." –Rigoberto González
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