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We Are the Fire: Poetry (Hardcover)
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The poems in Toby Olson's We Are the Fire, a selection made by the
poet himself of his later work, stand as better than half of what
he wishes to save from the years 1970-84. (The collections Home and
Aesthetics, published by Membrane Press, Milwaukee, in 1976 and
1978 respectively, complement the present volume.) Olson came into
national prominence when his second novel, Seaview, received the
PEN/Faulkner Award in 1983, but as a writer he has always given his
poetry prime place. Readers of Olson's novels will recognize
familiar themes among these poems that parallel their development
in his fiction--"Incest" and "The Father" did in fact appear in his
first novel, The Life of Jesus (1976). The landscape of Cape Cod,
the setting for much of Seaview, is evoked again and again in
"Birdsongs" and "The Florence Poems," a tender memorial to a close
friend whose death from cancer achieves a communion that transcends
grief. And in Olson's ongoing series "Standards," of which six are
included here, his singular lyric eroticism is underscored by his
remarkable metaphrasing of American popular songs. "For me," Olson
says, "the making of poetry increasingly becomes an act of
celebration. What is celebrated is not the significance of things
and events but the things and events themselves. It is not the
tales but the details that I am concerned with." We Are the Fire
lights the details.
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