Occasioned by the birth of a first child and originally spoken aloud into a digital audio recorder on the poet's long commute between the art museum where he worked and his home in a neighborhood burned in the Witch Creek Fire of 2007, each of the poems in Patrick Coleman's first book resists the confusions of twenty-first-century parenthood, marriage, art, and commerce. By turns conversational and anxious, metaphysical and self-mocking, celebratory yet permeated by an awareness of life's flickering ephemerality, Fire Season is a search for gratitude among reasons to be afraid-and proof that a person can pass through the fires and come out the other side alive.

Book Information
ISBN 9781946482150
Author Patrick Coleman
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint Tupelo Press, Incorporated
Publisher Tupelo Press, Incorporated
Weight(grams) 200g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 10mm