{"product_id":"learning-about-fire-ingrid-browning-moody-9781933896687","title":"Learning about Fire","description":"The poems in this collection inhabit an intimate landscape of basement bathrooms and neighborhood pools, places where the familiar becomes strange: a house burns on an empty highway; Jesus has his portrait made by a hobbyist painter in a linoleum-tiled room. These poems search out the unseen that exists behind the known, not to erase it by naming it, but to grapple with its presence and power, its effect on all that we can know and see. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Learning about Fire \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The sky ratcheted whole over us \u003cbr\u003e on the beach, the stars and the black \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e all one thing, cranked by some \u003cbr\u003e cosmic mechanism. Someone \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e threw a book into the fire. \u003cbr\u003e It sat unchanged for awhile, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e then its green cover drained and \u003cbr\u003e the pages began to swell, bloom \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e open, the edges curling back \u003cbr\u003e then fluttering--brittle, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e but out of habit holding on \u003cbr\u003e to their old shape, the whole \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e thing swaying a little, \u003cbr\u003e a boat rocking on the water. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Just as I began \u003cbr\u003e to think that maybe \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e it could keep on like this, in- \u003cbr\u003e between, for as long as we could \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e keep the fire going, someone \u003cbr\u003e lifted a stick to poke it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The intention was enough-- \u003cbr\u003e the whole form \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e didn't crumble: \u003cbr\u003e it vanished.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ingrid Browning Moody\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 193389668X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781933896687\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trp: The University Press of Shsu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.20d","brand":"Ingrid Browning Moody","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519657521407,"sku":"9781933896687","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_beea0e9c-371c-417b-afd0-6cdae32bc029.jpg?v=1778738054","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/learning-about-fire-ingrid-browning-moody-9781933896687","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}