{"product_id":"fire-at-the-big-top-paperback","title":"Fire at the Big Top - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSandra Yannone\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLana Hechtman Ayers\u003c\/b\u003e (Managing Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe 80th anniversary of the circus fire looms \/ like burnt smoke over water. Now you are \/\/ both the boy and the girl and the only one \/ left to tell this story.\u003c\/em\u003e So begins this collection of flaming poems that illuminates sexual love and lights up the circus. Yannone gives each performer a sonnet in a corona that includes the wire walker, the clown, the human cannonball, the bandleader. Before you've finished reading this page-turner, which is both a jeremiad and a joy, you'll even hear from the arsonist, himself, who intones, \u003cem\u003eThere is nothing on Earth I wouldn't want \/ To watch burn.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Lillo Way, \u003cem\u003eFlying: Trapeze Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn erotic circus of the glittering, gaudy, and heartbreaking, \u003cem\u003eFire at the Big Top\u003c\/em\u003e is nothing short of electrifying. Yannone has crafted a subversive world of queer performance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand expression, where poems are crowns, matches, acrobats, clowns, knives, and rings and their leaping movements unfurl like colorful scarves or flaming swords. The most\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eintricate magic trick, this collection shows us how sex and love can turn the mundane into illusion and spectacle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Ansley Clark, \u003cem\u003eBloodline\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFire at the Big Top i\u003c\/em\u003es a waxed-paraffin blaze of a read! A story of darling dare, wire walking, and combustion. A frenzy of love, destruction and tragedy in circus proportions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Catherine Ronan, \u003cem\u003eElemental Skin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 60\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.14 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53425628971315,"sku":"9781970256123","price":25.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/pmELbrLkrH9781970256123.webp?v=1780520041","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/fire-at-the-big-top-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}