Lease, Joseph: Fire Season

Chax Press, paperback Publication Date: November 15, 2023 Publisher Marketing: New collection from the poet called "the riven yet unwearied conscience of American poetry."  "In this finely crafted collection of poems, we are invited to love ourselves in the midst of what ails us. Each poem is a kaleidoscope of shedding and remembrance where objects become subjects wrapped in secular prayer. We are on the move (free falling at times) as we are reminded of all that matters and wears away. Lease continues to gift his readers with vulnerability, music and truth."—Xochiquetzal Candelaria "Joseph Lease's FIRE SEASON, composed in the heat of global and personal apocalypse, is one of the most intimate books I've ever encountered. 'I'm writing inside death, I'm / in the room.' Anyone who comes this close to death succumbs to its power to eradicate all pretense. Lease's language is simple, direct: 'what is real / (maybe sunlight / (my mother's face.' Words reappear like recurring dreams, brillia