Description Poetry.
An important, fearless, beautiful, wholly American debut.".
She pays wildly democratic witness to addiction, racism, mental illness, incarceration, women\'s shelter pamphlets, and subsidized apartment complexes.
Says Denise Duhamel, "Lisa Hase-Jackson\'s poems are poems of survival--elegantly crafted testimonials, gorgeously empathetic narratives.
Spanning divorce, single motherhood, individuality, and love, Flint AND Fire is a collection that burns with brave and honest beauty.
Lisa Hase-Jackson strikes the flinty surfaces of living and ignites a Fire that both clarifies and illuminates.
Like the prairies that populate many of these poems, life often must be burned back to make way for growth.
Selected for the 2019 Hilary Tham Capital Collection by Jericho Brown.
Women\'s Studies.
Description Poetry
