Bonfire Opera by Danusha Lameris
Poems In Praise of the Impossible, Wild World and Its Beauty-
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
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Picnic, Lightning
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Questions about Angels
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The Art Of Drowning
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Be Holding
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Satan Says
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Flying At Night
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Words for Empty and Words for Full
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Milk Black Carbon
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The Selected Levis
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Winter Stars
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with snow pouring southward past the window
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That Ship Has Sailed
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Central Air
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Imperial
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Noose and Hook
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Skid
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Elegy
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The Dirt She Ate
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Little Girls In Church
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Instructions for My Mother's Funeral
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Love and Strange Horses
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A Defense Of Poetry
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City Of Salt
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Leaping Poetry
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The Widening Spell of the Leaves
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Emplumada
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Black Swan
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Wild Hundreds
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Journey
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no time like now
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City of a Hundred Fires
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The Essential Etheridge Knight
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This Clumsy Living
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Insomnia Diary
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Bringing the Shovel Down
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The Selected Reginald Shepherd
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Elegy On Toy Piano
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Sure Signs
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Looking for The Gulf Motel
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The Starry Messenger
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Capricorn in Flux
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Pink Lady
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Gravitation
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No Rhododendron
“Bonfire Opera, Danusha Lameris’ ravishing second collection of poems, lives up to its title and then someIn melodic and sumptuous lines, she considers desire, sorrow, beauty and death. This is a collection you will want to keep close, ‘a reminder to begin, again, by listening carefully with the body’s rapt attention.”- Ellen Bass
“No experience is more fulfilling than reading the work of a writer who is a master of her craft—of feeling like the book you are immersed in is an entire world. This is what it is like reading Danusha LamÉris’ Bonfire Opera. Everything is alive in these poems, even loss. Even death. In these finely crafted lyrics, worms, berries, skin, hawks, dirt and desire exist and even thrive in a symbiotic relationship that is a model for a new way of thinking. If a book can be smart and funny and dark and wise and vulnerable and beautiful all at the same time, this one is. In one of her best poems, LamÉris writes, ‘This is what I’ve made here, a garden, a feast.’ That’s for sure. Bonfire Opera is a feast you’ll want to devour and a garden that will never stop yielding.”- Dean Rader, University of San Francisco
“The poems in Bonfire Opera frame a vibrant folk opera. Each offers part of an unfinished story, a balance of music and imagery. The storyteller is both an observer and participant, unraveling the story with the thread of what remains unspoken. In this outstanding series of poems, there is something waiting to be said, something to be revealed, as each poem draws us onward like a bird trying ‘to escape… throwing itself, again and again, against the stained glass.’ The bird and the ‘ghost child’ call out to each of us to ‘begin again.”- Colleen J. McElroy
“No experience is more fulfilling than reading the work of a writer who is a master of her craft—of feeling like the book you are immersed in is an entire world. This is what it is like reading Danusha LamÉris’ Bonfire Opera. Everything is alive in these poems, even loss. Even death. In these finely crafted lyrics, worms, berries, skin, hawks, dirt and desire exist and even thrive in a symbiotic relationship that is a model for a new way of thinking. If a book can be smart and funny and dark and wise and vulnerable and beautiful all at the same time, this one is. In one of her best poems, LamÉris writes, ‘This is what I’ve made here, a garden, a feast.’ That’s for sure. Bonfire Opera is a feast you’ll want to devour and a garden that will never stop yielding.”- Dean Rader, University of San Francisco
“The poems in Bonfire Opera frame a vibrant folk opera. Each offers part of an unfinished story, a balance of music and imagery. The storyteller is both an observer and participant, unraveling the story with the thread of what remains unspoken. In this outstanding series of poems, there is something waiting to be said, something to be revealed, as each poem draws us onward like a bird trying ‘to escape… throwing itself, again and again, against the stained glass.’ The bird and the ‘ghost child’ call out to each of us to ‘begin again.”- Colleen J. McElroy
Danusha Laméris is the author of The Moons of August, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. Some of her poems have been published in: The Best American Poetry,The New York Times,TheAmerican Poetry Review, Tin House, The Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares. She teaches poetry independently, and is the current Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822966050 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822966050 |
| Title | Bonfire Opera |
| Author | Danusha Lameris |
| Series | Pitt Poetry Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Year published | 2020-02-25 |
| Number of pages | 62 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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