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02643aam a2200313 i 4500 001 8C6145786F0E11EE98CA39D02DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231020010108 008 220728t20222022kyu b 000 p eng 010 $a 2022943637 020 $a 1956782184 020 $a 9781956782189 035 $a (OCoLC)1347430557 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCQ $d BDX $d ZCU $d IND $d DLC $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3603.O4823 $b D46 2022 082 00 $a 811/.6 $2 23/eng/20230720 100 1 $a Cohen, Susan, $d 1948- $e author. 245 10 $a Democracy of fire : $b poems / $c Susan Cohen. 264 1 $a Frankfort, KY : $b Broadstone, $c [2022] 300 $a 67 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a ""I'm staying among strangers," Susan Cohen declares in the "Letter Home" that opens her new volume of poems. A page or two later, in a description of two people viewing a painting, "our heads bent / to the same work of understanding the world," she admits "Still, I have no idea what you are seeing." This sense of isolation and detachment, and the corresponding longing for place and connection, run through these poems, which weave together several strands of observation. Her background as a science journalist informs several poems reflecting on lessons from "science news": the previously unknown glow of amphibians illuminating "how much we cannot see, and yet we stomp everywhere," while the lost legs of ancient snakes remind us "some prospect is no longer within reach." She envies the jellyfish for "living without architecture, outside of history." Yet she also writes love poems from the vantage of long marriage, and studies Yiddish as a way back into memory, heritage, and history. And yes, she surveys the contemporary horrors of school shootings, racial violence, and environmental catastrophe, but reserves her most important lesson for her closing image, which also furnished the book with its title: amidst the ruins of yet another California forest fire, she observes how "the flames choose what to burn / in this raging democracy of fire," leaving the survivors to set aside their differences in recognition of their "shared citizenship of flesh. / Here's to the live and kicking, / those with hungers and with thirsts.""-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-64, 65-67). 650 0 $a American poetry $y 21st century. 650 7 $a American poetry $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807348 655 7 $a Poetry $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423828 655 7 $a Poetry. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031647.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8C6145786F0E11EE98CA39D02DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search