The Necessity of Wildfire
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The Necessity of Wildfire

Poems

Caitlin Scarano

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The Necessity of Wildfire

Poems

Caitlin Scarano

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About This Book

Winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for Poetry

Winner of the Wren Poetry Prize selected by Ada Limón, Caitlin Scarano's collection wrestles with family violence, escaping home, unraveling relationships, and the complexity of sexuality.

The Necessity of Wildfire begins, "To not harm / each other is not enough. I want to love you / so much that you have no before." These poems chase a singular, thorny question: how does where and who we came from shape who and how we love? Judge Ada Limón says the resulting collection is "hungry, clear-eyed, tough, and generous."

Scarano's imagination is galvanized by the South where she grew up and by the Pacific Northwest where she now resides—floods and wildfires, the Salish Sea and the North Cascades, and the humans and animals whose lives intersect and collide there. In this collection, Scarano reckons with a legacy of violence on both sides of their family, the death of their estranged father, the unraveling of long-term relationships, the complexity of their sexuality, and the decision not to have children. With fierce lyricality, these poems—"stories without monsters, / stories without morals"—resist both redemption and blame, yet call in mercy.

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Publisher
Blair
Year
2022
ISBN
9781949467796
Topic
Littérature
Subtopic
Les femmes dans la poésie

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. The houses where they eat the lambs
  8. Every disaster branches out from another
  9. Calf
  10. During the Wildfires
  11. Song Dogs
  12. Nights like these I think of my sisters
  13. Partition
  14. Unvigil
  15. In which I dream I am my grandfather
  16. Not the ending (that came much later) but when we knew it was over
  17. On his deathbed, my father, who I haven’t seen in ten years, offers me homemade moonshine
  18. They Named You Patriarch
  19. Wellspring
  20. Buttercream
  21. Leveret at Laughing Jaw
  22. Parameters
  23. Deer Season
  24. Fast Beauty
  25. I know we’re all sick of poems with deer but let me explain
  26. Lady of the Shovel
  27. Some thoughts on the one who said I expected too much
  28. Not how the silo stood but what it was after the fire
  29. A Poem to Multiple Men
  30. God’s Country
  31. Spur
  32. Your grandfather killed a deer, my grandfather killed a deer
  33. Oxbow
  34. Diobsud Creek Pack
  35. Daughter Knot
  36. Ember
  37. Droplet
  38. Lion’s Mane
  39. In retrospect, I dream of our wedding
  40. When you first ask if we can have a child
  41. A rewriting of our last goodbye
  42. Bald Eagle on Blue Stones
  43. After the horses are gone
  44. A Litany of Dreams You May Borrow
  45. Acknowledgments
Citation styles for The Necessity of Wildfire

APA 6 Citation

Scarano, C. (2022). The Necessity of Wildfire ([edition unavailable]). Blair. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3227604/the-necessity-of-wildfire-poems-pdf (Original work published 2022)

Chicago Citation

Scarano, Caitlin. (2022) 2022. The Necessity of Wildfire. [Edition unavailable]. Blair. https://www.perlego.com/book/3227604/the-necessity-of-wildfire-poems-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Scarano, C. (2022) The Necessity of Wildfire. [edition unavailable]. Blair. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3227604/the-necessity-of-wildfire-poems-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Scarano, Caitlin. The Necessity of Wildfire. [edition unavailable]. Blair, 2022. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.