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2004

Format:	Book
Author:	Haymon, Ava Leavell.
Title:	The strict economy of fire : poems / Ava Leavell Haymon.
Publisher, Date:	Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2004] ©2004
Description:	viii, 52 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:	068921 ; *068922
Web Site:	Table of contents
LCCN:	2004001886
ISBN:	0807129933 9780807129937
Other Number:	54279952
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On 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, The Strict Economy of Fire asks what we can know and what we can never know ?on this far side of the earth.?

Table of Contents

	Care and Feeding	p. 1
	God of Luck	p. 2
	Festival of Lights	p. 3
	Visitation: Goddess of Prosperity	p. 5
	Above the River Ghandaki	p. 7
	Walking	p. 8
	Moonfall	p. 9
	The Questions Women Ask	p. 10
	Through the Black Ranges	p. 11
	Village of Thieves	p. 12
	First Smoke	p. 13
	Trick of Distance	p. 18
	The Art and Practice of Description	p. 20
	The Only Way Home Is to Climb Higher	p. 24
	Catechism: Om Mani Padme Um	p. 25
	Rhododendron Forest on the Last Ascent	p. 26
	Crossing the Pass	p. 27
	Nightfall	p. 28
	Waking	p. 29
	The Way Down Is Steep As the Way Up	p. 31
	Face of Glory	p. 32
	To Climb Mountains, You Look at the Ground	p. 34
	Walking Through Luck to Abundance	p. 35
	Reentry: Agricultural Horizon	p. 36
	Decorating for Holiday	p. 38
	Household Sculpture	p. 40
	Stars for the Ganesh Himal	p. 43
	Bus Ride Back to Kathmandu	p. 44
	What Comes: An Offering in Gratitude for a Safe Expedition	p. 49
	The Question Everybody Asks	p. 50
	Naming Red	p. 52

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