Fire Watcher - Guernica Editions

Fire Watcher (ePub)

Vivian Demuth

Guernica Editions, Spring 2013

68 pages

ePub (eBook)

ISBN13: 9781550716979

ISBN10: 1550716972

English

$6.95 Canada, $6.95 US

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From the vast expanse of the boreal forest, Vivian Demuth shows both an exquisite eye for detail and a profound concern for the larger environmental picture. Her lively poems show that, to an engaged observer with an accomplished literary imagination, the mountain forest is a complex, animated bio-community.

The generator won't start./ Werewolves crash the bush./ Drunk wind stumbles in the trees./ Hornets and flies want in, / sometimes I want out.

An intelligent inspired feminist and highly cogent poetics, coming from one who has truly lived "outside".

Anne Waldman, Author of The Iovis Trilogy

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About Guernica

On Monday, April 26th, 1937, the bells of Santa Maria tolled, warning of the inhumane aerial raid that would reduce the Spanish city of Guernica into ruins. Men, women, children and animals were destroyed under the weight of the fiery nationalist bombs...

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