FIRE ~ by Holly Wren Spaulding
FIRE ~ by Holly Wren Spaulding
FIRE — a chapbook of poetry from one of our favorite writers, teachers, and collaborators, Holly Wren Spaulding.
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Designed and digitally typeset in Adobe Jenson Pro at St Brigid Press.
Interior pages digitally printed at Bailey Printing, Inc., Charlottesville, Virginia.
Text block hand-sewn at St Brigid Press (7.25” tall x 4.25” wide)
End papers are hand-marbled in India.
Jacket letterpress printed on St Armand handmade paper at St Brigid Press.
From the author:
In her translation of Sappho's fragments, Anne Carson used brackets to represent missing matter: words that are incomplete or illegible in the original papyrus. This was an aesthetic gesture, Carson explained, implying a "free space of imaginal adventure."
When I read about her process all those years ago, I was taken. I needed space for what isn't or can't be said, and for which there is only feeling.
The open spaces in Fire can be read as white heat; the stretching hours and years in which certain events, whether real or imagined, lived in the imagination, and vibrated beyond.
These fragments are husks of places and people in a burning landscape. The elements. Bodies resonating according to unseen frequencies. Attempts to say what it was like. The residue of what was felt.
Holly Wren Spaulding, Summer 2021
“This work is a singular gorgeous poem, channeled through a writer who is herself a living, breathing poem. I know the flames contained in these pages, can smell their approach, and Holly Wren Spaulding, with her heart always outside her chest, is the herald of a scorching I can be grateful for.”
