A review by kleonard
Fire Is Not a Country: Poems by Cynthia Dewi Oka

4.0

This is a rich and powerful collection of poetry, scripts, and prose poems chronicling the passages of life and time, and grappling with pain, displacement, and anger. The writing is lush, sometimes going a little too far beyond metaphor and threatening to lose the track altogether, but broadly readable and engaging. The author's various genres encourage readers to think about the meaning of form and genre, and how it shapes our reading.