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An expanded version of Ring of Fire, originally published by Zoland Books, Boston, 2001. This full-length collection includes individual lyric poems as well as a previously published chapbook Sea Lyrics and a new collaborative piece "Dumb Duke Death" with illustrations by Jennifer Jarnot.
List of contents
- I. The Book of Providence
- The Bridge
- Dictionary
- Tell Me Poem
- Ode
- Brooklyn Anchorage
- What In Fire Did I, Firelover, Starter of Fires, Love?
- Found Text
- Autobiography
- Still Life
- Valley of the Shadow of the Dogs
- The New Life
- The Age of the Velocipede
- II. Sea Lyrics
- III. Dumb Duke Death
- Dumb Duke Death
- IV. Heliopolis
- Suddenly, Last Summer
- O Life Force of Supernalness of World
- Ye White Antarctic Birds
- Poem Beginning with a Line by Frank Lima
- O Razorback Clams
- Moo Is Om Backwards
- Song of the Chinchilla
- You, Armadillo
- On the Lemur
- Aardvark
- Song from the Greek
- Lake of Fire
- The Song Between
- Old
- The Eightfold Path
- Right View
- Right Aspiration
- Right Speech
- Right Action
- Right Energy
- Right Mind
- Right Labor
- Right Meditation
- The Specific Incendiaries of Springtime
About the author
Lisa Jarnot was born in Buffalo, New York in 1967. She is the author of several chapbooks as well as a full-length collection of poems, Some Other Kind of Mission, (Burning Deck Press, 1996). She currently lives in New York City and is completing a biography of the American poet Robert Duncan which will be published by the University of California Press in 2004.
