Open Fire
Deborah Gorlin
Even as they consider the paradoxical properties of fire, its potential both for creativity and for destruction, the poems in this book burn with the intent to illuminate the objects of their contemplation. Open Fire conjures both the violent imperative of a firing squad, and the communal warmth radiating from a campfire. In persona and ekphrastic forms, Gorlin jimmies the lock of her identity to pull off daring acts of imaginative immersion and poetic ventriloquism as she adventures into the images of artists, and the lives of figures featured in the Bible, myth, literature, history, biography, fashion design, and current events. Imagine yourself as the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Leda with a surprising assessment of the swan, the World War II photographer Lee Miller in Hitler’s bathtub, the British fashionista Isabella Blow, and even Death itself mourning over the Covid epidemic.
Read by the author.
Duration - 1h 56m.
Author - Deborah Gorlin.
Narrator - Deborah Gorlin.
Published Date - Saturday, 04 January 2025.
Copyright - © 2023 Bauhan Publishing ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
Even as they consider the paradoxical properties of fire, its potential both for creativity and for destruction, the poems in this book burn with the intent to illuminate the objects of their contemplation. Open Fire conjures both the violent imperative of a firing squad, and the communal warmth radiating from a campfire. In persona and ekphrastic forms, Gorlin jimmies the lock of her identity to pull off daring acts of imaginative immersion and poetic ventriloquism as she adventures into the images of artists, and the lives of figures featured in the Bible, myth, literature, history, biography, fashion design, and current events. Imagine yourself as the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Leda with a surprising assessment of the swan, the World War II photographer Lee Miller in Hitler’s bathtub, the British fashionista Isabella Blow, and even Death itself mourning over the Covid epidemic. Read by the author. Duration - 1h 56m. Author - Deborah Gorlin. Narrator - Deborah Gorlin. Published Date - Saturday, 04 January 2025. Copyright - © 2023 Bauhan Publishing ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:17
03 open fire dedications
Duration:00:00:14
04 open fire one laughing gas
Duration:00:01:32
05 open fire the trouble with rivers
Duration:00:02:08
06 open fire landslide
Duration:00:01:51
07 open fire the qualia of souls
Duration:00:03:28
08 open fire out in the open
Duration:00:02:49
09 open fire emilys redress
Duration:00:02:54
10 open fire night and day
Duration:00:02:02
11 open fire against cremation
Duration:00:01:39
12 open fire gone bowling
Duration:00:01:09
13 open fire knell
Duration:00:01:37
14 open fire you have to imagine
Duration:00:02:25
15 open fire down at the farm
Duration:00:01:53
16 open fire a word from death
Duration:00:02:53
17 open fire masks in part
Duration:00:06:41
18 open fire two in hitlers bathtub
Duration:00:03:21
19 open fire two so much for life
Duration:00:01:47
20 open fire dark materials
Duration:00:02:05
21 open fire not your nightingale
Duration:00:02:30
22 open fire strange fruit
Duration:00:02:18
23 open fire their fault
Duration:00:02:33
24 open fire leda
Duration:00:01:10
25 open fire demeters son
Duration:00:02:16
26 open fire suite breastplates
Duration:00:01:41
27 open fire suite dog in the hunt
Duration:00:02:28
28 open fire suite hats off
Duration:00:01:55
29 open fire suite her manolos
Duration:00:01:40
30 open fire lip
Duration:00:01:46
31 open fire talking dirty
Duration:00:01:21
32 open fire beauty is the daughter of death
Duration:00:01:55
33 open fire last will and testament
Duration:00:01:18
34 open fire mc queens side
Duration:00:04:06
35 open fire annunciations
Duration:00:00:55
36 open fire bread and roses
Duration:00:01:47
37 open fire for all appearances
Duration:00:01:59
38 open fire dream of the magi
Duration:00:01:52
39 open fire 3 gringo death
Duration:00:01:14
40 open fire forensics
Duration:00:01:41
41 open fire naming the boat
Duration:00:01:36
42 open fire sweet seed in the rock
Duration:00:02:08
43 open fire snow makes a case
Duration:00:02:00
44 open fire off the cliff
Duration:00:01:38
45 open fire fall higher
Duration:00:04:36
46 open fire portrait of the poet
Duration:00:04:55
47 open fire survival of the fittest
Duration:00:01:35
48 open fire beautiful worry
Duration:00:01:03
49 open fire in these parts
Duration:00:01:01
50 open fire darkness on my pillow
Duration:00:02:03
51 open fire anesthesias manifesto
Duration:00:02:05
52 open fire rights of passage
Duration:00:01:49
53 open fire prepositional phases
Duration:00:01:51
54 open fire thin ice
Duration:00:02:05
55 open fire bird food
Duration:00:01:52
56 open fire ago
Duration:00:01:11
58 open fire acknowledgments
Duration:00:01:30
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:17