{"product_id":"the-strict-economy-of-fire-paperback","title":"The Strict Economy of Fire - 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\u003eAva Leavell Haymon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a pilgrimage to the Kingdom of Nepal, a group of American women trek into the Himalayas, beginning and ending in Kathmandu. They ascend, turn back just short of reaching their destination because of impassable snow, and descend. \"Say what you see,\" smoke rising on a distant mountain seems to command, and Ava Leavell Haymon responds with language that strives to reconcile the extremes of this exotic place-- danger and awesome beauty, community and abandonment, death and life, flame's heat and altitude's cold, an alien landscape and the poet's own deep memories. Fires--of cooking, festivals, cremation, deforestation, and starvation--rage through the poems; like the name of the Hindu goddess Kali, fire is \"destruction and creation \/ in one word.\" An exacting yet exhilarating poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Strict Economy of Fire \u003c\/i\u003easks what we can know and what we can never know \"on this far side of the earth.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAva Leavell Haymon lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and teaches poetry writing there and at a summer retreat center in the mountains of New Mexico. This is her first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 52\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.22 x 7.96 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52726434332979,"sku":"9780807129944","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Z0VTNklZWUpsZUVybDQ3dHRUcnR4UT09.webp?v=1763737198","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-strict-economy-of-fire-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}