The necessity of wildfire / Caitlin Scarano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scarano, Caitlin, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

78 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

[Durham, North Carolina]: Blair, [2022]

Summary:

"Winner of the Wren Poetry Prize selected by final judge Ada Limón, Caitlin Scarano's second full-length collection is The Necessity of Wildfire. It begins, "To not harm / each other is not enough. I want to love you / so much that you have no before." These poems chase a singular, thorny question: how does where and who we came from shape who and how we love? Judge Ada Limón says the resulting collection is "hungry, clear-eyed, tough, and generous." Though originally from the South, Scarano's imagination is galvanized by the Pacific Northwest-floods and wildfires, the Salish Sea and the North Cascades, and the humans and animals whose lives intersect and collide there. In this collection, Scarano reckons with a legacy of violence on both sides of her family, the death of her estranged father, the unraveling of two long-term relationships, the complexity of sexuality, and her decision not to have children. With fierce lyricality, these poems--"stories without monsters, / stories without morals"--resist both redemption and blame, yet call in mercy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The houses where they eat the lambs

Every disaster branches out from another

Calf

During the Wildfires

Song Dogs

Nights like these I think of my sisters

Partition

Unvigil

In which I dream I am my grandfather

Not the ending (that came much later) but when we knew it was over

On his deathbed, my father, who I haven't seen in ten years, offers me homemade moonshine

They Named You Patriarch

Wellspring

Buttercream

Leveret at Laughing Jaw

Parameters

Deer Season

Fast Beauty

I know we're all sick of poems with deer but let me explain

Lady of the Shovel

Some thoughts on the one who said I expected too much

Not how the silo stood but what it was after the fire

A Poem to Multiple Men

God's Country

Spur

Your grandfather killed a deer, my grandfather killed a deer

Oxbow

Diobsud Creek Pack

Daughter Knot

Ember

Droplet

Lion's Mane

In retrospect, I dream of our wedding

When you first ask if we can have a child

A rewriting of our last goodbye

Bald Eagle on Blue Stones

After the horses are gone

A Litany of Dreams You May Borrow.

Notes:

Place of publication from publisher's website.

Winner of the Wren Poetry Prize

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Scarano, Caitlin. Necessity of wildfire

ISBN:

9781949467789

1949467783

OCLC:

1267687753