Each offers part of an unfinished story, a balance of music and imagery. "The poems in Bonfire Opera frame a vibrant folk opera. Bonfire Opera is a feast you’ll want to devour and a garden that will never stop yielding." -Dean Rader In one of her best poems, Laméris writes, ‘This is what I’ve made here, a garden, a feast.’ That’s for sure. If a book can be smart and funny and dark and wise and vulnerable and beautiful all at the same time, this one is. In these finely crafted lyrics, worms, berries, skin, hawks, dirt and desire exist and even thrive in a symbiotic relationship that is a model for a new way of thinking. This is what it is like reading Danusha Laméris’ Bonfire Opera. Everything is alive in these poems, even loss. "No experience is more fulfilling than reading the work of a writer who is a master of her craft-of feeling like the book you are immersed in is an entire world. This is a collection you will want to keep close, ‘a reminder to begin, again, by listening carefully with the body’s rapt attention.'" -Ellen Bass In melodic and sumptuous lines, she considers desire, sorrow, beauty and death. "Bonfire Opera, Danusha Lameris’ ravishing second collection of poems, lives up to its title and then some. Bonfire Opera, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020
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