The poems in Rebecca Weiner Tompkins's King of the Fireflies lead the reader on a journey through a world of landscapes: urban; rural; mythological; emotional; erotic; cultural; political; and spiritual, and the borders between them.
The voice throughout is of a figure in those landscapes, struggling to navigate love, loss, and mortality while juxtaposing natural and human-made environments, .
Her language is both visual and musical (as well as a writer, she is also a lifelong working musician), and the poems range from lyric to narrative, but always with a strong sense of location and a precision of detail, even when the speaker is conveying questions or doubt.
These poems explore the edges and the depths of dark places--but possibility, anticipation, and even humor are present.
The exploration leads forward, and the promise of renewal rings true.
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Sensitive Skin Press King of the fireflies, paperback/rebecca weiner tompkins
