{"product_id":"house-fire-paperback","title":"House Fire - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJim Nawrocki\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom an automaton navigating a forbidden relationship with a man in post-apocalyptic Australia to a reimagining of a friendship between Franklin Pierce and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nawrocki's short fiction ranges from futuristic to historical and everywhere in between. \u003cem\u003eHouse Fire\u003c\/em\u003e, the winner of the 2009 James White Poetry Prize, judged by Mark Doty-a book that was never published-blazes with poems that are erudite and precise, even when confronting the messiness of love, grief, and mortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work of the late Jim Nawrocki, who died of cancer in 2018, is poignant, rangy, and genre-bending, and House Fire is a debut collection from a literary voice gone far too soon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These poems are the work of a hungry ghost, a gifted young man with a keen eye and silver tongue, who felt in the keenest, most intimate way the transience of all things. Jim Nawrocki alternates between a Buddhist calm and the ferocious appetite for the life of those condemned to know they will die young. In these splendid verses only Jim's art is resolute and invariably mature.\"-Edmund White\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An unsung genius in life, Jim Nawrocki's poems and stories left me wanting much more and knowing my hunger wouldn't be satisfied. Alternating between the domestic, the postapocalyptic, and the cosmic, \u003cem\u003eHouse Fire\u003c\/em\u003e marks not only the beginning, but also the end, of Jim's vision. This ironic circularity perfectly encapsulates his erotics. If we are lucky, more posthumous work will grace us with his peculiar wisdom.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Michael Walsh, editor of \u003cem\u003eQueer Nature\u003c\/em\u003e and author of \u003cem\u003eCreep Love\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 186\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 18, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47244415729913,"sku":"9798985376227","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/TmdZQTd0VGFodzhGM2p5bENoMnFuUT09.webp?v=1768591363","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/house-fire-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}