Summary
Peterson unfurls the quotidian fabric of our lives, patterned with the difficulties of language and this moment.
Confusion frames the human predicament. In Katie Peterson’s Fog and Smoke, confusion is, literally, our climate. Writing to and from the California landscape, Peterson sees fog and smoke as literal—one a habitual, natural weather event, the other an increasingly common aftereffect of the West’s drought-caused fires. But they are also metaphysical. Fog and smoke ref…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780374610890 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0374610894 |
| Author: | Katie Peterson |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 236g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 147mm x 220mm |
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Critics Review
“A book of terrified joy. It is a book that moves day by day, saturated in the moment … Peterson, an excellent storyteller … deftly braids personal lyric with narrative through the four unnamed sections of Fog and Smoke, moving between life and the ephemera that surrounds it, making meaning.” –Valerie Duff-Strautmann, Los Angeles Review of Books
“Each line shines in the sun like stained glass. Fog and Smoke is a triumph of observation and intimacy that invigorates the reader to act for the natural world.” –Michael Ruzicka, Booklist (starred review)
Katie Peterson
Katie Peterson is the author of the poetry collections This One Tree; Permission; The Accounts, winner of the Rilke Prize; and A Piece of Good News. She lives in California and teaches at the University of California, Davis.
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