{"product_id":"bonfire-opera-poems-9780822966050","title":"Bonfire Opera: Poems","description":"Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-man's land. Here in \u003ci\u003eBonfire Opera, \u003c\/i\u003e grief and Eros grapple in the same domain. A bullet-hole through the heart, a house full of ripe persimmons, a ghost in a garden. Coyotes cry out on the hill, and lovers find themselves kissing, \"bee-stung, drunk\" in the middle of road. Here, the dust is holy, as is the dark, unknown. These are poems that praise the impossible, wild world, finding beauty in its wake. \u003cb\u003eExcerpt from \"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBonfire Opera\"\u003c\/b\u003e In those days, there was a woman in our circle who was known, not only for her beauty, but also for taking off all her clothes and singing opera. And sure enough, as the night wore on and the stars emerged to stare at their reflections on the sea, and everyone had drunk a little wine, she began to disrobe, loose her great bosom and the tender belly, pale in the moonlight, the Viking hips, and to let her torn raiment fall to the sand as we looked up from the flames.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDanusha Laméris \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Moons of August\u003c\/i\u003e, 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: \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, Tin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Gettysburg Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Ploughshares. \u003c\/i\u003eShe teaches poetry independently, and is the current Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50606185120018,"sku":"9780822966050","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_90620c4d-d41d-4a78-9a09-05046dc681d3.jpg?v=1732290172","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bonfire-opera-poems-9780822966050","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}