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A review by suddenflamingword
Thin Fire by Alicia Mountain
3.0
A compelling coincidence is that Thin Fire is also a brand of kiln paper. In a broad sense, Thin Fire the book is performing the same balance - preventing a fragile glass from latching onto and breaking off on the kiln shelf, revealing its fragile appearance to belie its characteristic endurance. It's, in short, the contrast between loving yourself, loving, and being loved. The opening poem, "The Book Is A Hungry Darkness," contains the lines:
My mother sends my wife her love.
In all of this, forgiveness
assumes sin and I'm not sorry.
The Book? "My wife" beside "assumes sin"? This is a collection of combat poems, a passive combat, struggling to preserve what is born fragile and faces the violence of assumption how heat assumes pottery out of clay.
My mother sends my wife her love.
In all of this, forgiveness
assumes sin and I'm not sorry.
The Book? "My wife" beside "assumes sin"? This is a collection of combat poems, a passive combat, struggling to preserve what is born fragile and faces the violence of assumption how heat assumes pottery out of clay.