Ring of Fire

Ring of Fire combines the lyricism of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson and the experimentation of the New York and Beat Schools. These poems meditate on the human condition, documenting and constructing the self in relation to everyday environments."Truly a treasure."- Anselm Hollo"This delicious book compounds the classic rites of passage with brilliant insight and invention."- Robert CreeleyLisa Jarnot is the author of Some Other Kind of Mission and is currently writing a biography of poet Robert Duncan. She teaches in Brooklyn, New York and Boulder, Colorado.