Wildfire: A Verse Essay on Obscurity and Illumination

by Andrea Brady

Poetry. WILDFIRE is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. It concerns the history of incendiary devices, of the evolution of Greek fire from a divine secret which could sustain or destroy empires, into white phosphorus and napalm; the elliptical fires of the pre-Socratics, Aristotle's service to Alexander in the fashioning of pyrotechnics, the burning/blooming/mating bodies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1928650317
• ISBN13: 9781928650317
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Krupskaya
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 7.9"