What Fire by Alice Miller Dario Jaramillo urban life and a sequence

urban life and a sequence prompted by Elizabeth Bishop’s letters

to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened

for reasons too complicated to go into

giving them an international gathering of poems of great personal force

 The River beautifully invokes this connection

What Fire by Alice Miller Dario Jaramillo urban life and a sequenceWhat Fire is about how to continue as catastrophe crawls in, when the climate crisis has its grip on us all, the internet has been shut down, and the buildings are burning up. What happens when the philosophers never arrive? What songs are still worth singing? In her third collection, Alice Miller takes a fierce, unflinching look at the world we live in, at what we have made, and whether it is possible to change.