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Spot weather forecast : a fire liturgy / Kevin Goodan.
Van Pelt Library PS3607.O563 S66 2021
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodan, Kevin, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fire fighters--Poetry.
- Fire fighters.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 57 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Farmington, Maine : Alice James Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- "From the unique perspective of a U.S. Forest Service elite, a Type 1 Interagency "Hotshot" Crew (the "SEAL Team Six of the firefighting world"), poems weave together memory, urgency, and the passage of time. Features segments from actual incident reports, forcing readers to witness what it's like to stand before an inferno, walking with one foot in the black. An elegy for the self and the damage one sustains fighting wildfires"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Because the first condition of the universe is fire
- When the fire says remember
- Most believe flames are greedy, indiscriminate
- Whose throat does not house
- We dream coniferous
- Everything we did had to do with lines
- A tree's second dream
- Where are you now
- We step from the ash
- The steep slope ripples
- Sting of that fire elemental
- Downtown Marshall Brown loopy
- We scan for patterans of ignition
- When the holding-wood pops
- Sun purpled at its apex
- The first language is of fire
- I am feral, brunt-of-storm
- Some Hi-toned fire gods
- Jet boats ferry us up the Salmon River
- We give
- The small nits of fire
- We station ourselves along the slope
- And the flame
- In the conditions of the name
- What is in our ears is blood. What we hear
- That the flames are echo chambers for the lost
- The pyrocumulus
- Morning finds us
- O illuminated realms / plumes / voices
- After dry MRE sausage patties, we line out
- We scout for natural breaks
- At Morning Briefing, the Incident Commander
- Who will contest
- At H-4, Division Delta
- What we render is what we become
- I stand at the fire
- Molecules of smoke.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Goodan, Kevin, 1969- Spot weather forecast
- ISBN:
- 9781948579223
- 1948579227
- OCLC:
- 1243037032
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