John Sibley Williams, "As One Fire Consumes Another" (Orison Books, 2019)

New Books in Literature · Jun 21, 2019 · 51m

John Sibley Williams’ As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Books, 2019) presents a familiar world full of burnings carried out on both the grand and intimate scale. The newspaper-like columns of prose poetry provide a social critique of the violent side of American culture centered within the boundaries of self and family. Although an apocalyptic tension permeates throughout, these poems envision the kind of fires that not only provide destruction but also illuminate a spark of hope. “Dust rises from the road & there is too much curve to resolve the edges of embankment & asphalt. Backfire…