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Weight | .35 lbs |
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Dimensions | 6.2 × .2 × 8.2 in |
A brilliant new poetic sequence from a leading innovative American poet
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Weight | .35 lbs |
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Dimensions | 6.2 × .2 × 8.2 in |
Fire Break is a suite of untitled lyric poems which move through a succession of present moments, bringing through the weave both hard-edged engagement and uncommon harmonics. In the mix can be heard messages of desire, physicality, global imbalances, and ultimately, creation.
George Albon’s admirable body of work functions like a musical backbone, bracing us for and facing us into the world.
The poems constituting Fire Break are beautiful and moody, but I wonder if the title might be signaling a necessary defensiveness (a controlled burn), a survivalist instinct at work. Albon’s exploration of time and perception seems an effort at forestalling a romantic attachment to the world. To what extent is living in the head a retreat from reality or a further pursuit thereof?