Firebreaks Poems [Paperback]

Known for a poetry both experimental, activist,Come here, join the protest he invites. No poet currently working is more loyal to locale, his Jam Tree Gully, and yet none speaks as accurately from so many different geographies. Air shimmering with riot ends a later poem, and between protest and riot Kinsella maps the living world onto a M?bius strip of poetry on which all things are contiguous and contingent. Nothing escapes his loving, ethical watching.Rooted in the homeopathy of fighting fire with fire, John Kinsellas new book of poems is a how-to manual of care and caring: the care of his craft as a poet, the care for other persons near and far in time and space, and, above all, this true firebrands care for the natural worldwhich reaches from his tender shepherding of the mice invading his cupboards to his concern for species yet unknown.A follow-up to the critically acclaimed