{"product_id":"the-necessity-of-wildfire-poems-9781949467789","title":"The Necessity of Wildfire: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Wren Poetry Prize selected by Ada Limóoacute;n, Caitlin Scarano's collection wrestles with family violence, escaping home, unraveling relationships, and the complexity of sexuality. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Necessity of Wildfire\u003c\/i\u003e begins, \"To not harm \/ each other is not enough. I want to love you \/ so much that you have no before.\" These poems chase a singular, thorny question: how does where and who we came from shape who and how we love? Judge Ada Limón says the resulting collection is \"hungry, clear-eyed, tough, and generous.\"Scarano's imagination is galvanized by the South where she grew up and by the Pacific Northwest where she now resides-floods and wildfires, the Salish Sea and the North Cascades, and the humans and animals whose lives intersect and collide there. In this collection, Scarano reckons with a legacy of violence on both sides of their family, the death of their estranged father, the unraveling of long-term relationships, the complexity of their sexuality, and the decision not to have children. With fierce lyricality, these poems--\"stories without monsters, \/ stories without morals\"--resist both redemption and blame, yet call in mercy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally from Southside Virginia, \u003cb\u003eCaitlin Scarano \u003c\/b\u003e(she\/they) is a writer based in Bellingham, Washington. She holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. They were selected as a participant in the NSF's Antarctic Artists \u0026amp; Writers Program and spent November 2018 in McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Her debut collection of poems is \u003ci\u003eDo Not Bring Him Water\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEntropy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCarve\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e. You can find them at caitlinscarano.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blair","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50682348437778,"sku":"9781949467789","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1f283157-84f8-4ec6-a32d-21bd2af43e20.jpg?v=1733969334","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-necessity-of-wildfire-poems-9781949467789","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}