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    612-822-4611

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Continent of Fire

Continent of Fire

Considine, William

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1639801766
ISBN13: 9781639801763
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Oct 21 2022
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Most poetry neglects the centrality of work in life. Not Continent of Fire, which begins with the steel mills of a Pittsburgh-area childhood. Its section headings are phrases from Paradise Lost, whose subject, the Fall of Man, is the mythical origin of human work. A terrible paradox emerges: We have to work to live, but much of our work is destroying the world and ourselves, everything incidental to extraction. In the midst of this spreading fire, We awaken again to what's been lost...before the fascists came. A Boy Scout rejects a rightwing scoutmaster around 1960. A city official watches social decay outside his Times Square office in the 1980s. We experience both the presentness and pastness of the past at the same time, a considerable feat. Such poems seem a moment's thought, to quote Yeats' Adam's Curse, while concealing the hard work.

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