Sorry About the Fire

by Colleen Coco Collins

I wanted a good bewildering, / down deep, / as the keep of a castle. In this debut collection, Coco Collins draws on all of her multidisciplinary enamorations. Questions of time and presumptions of sentience, the language of rhythm and all forms of music, the peripatetic and the ouroboric all find expression in a widely cast net of sympathies rendered through the triple vision of her Irish, French, and Odawa heritage, each checking one against the others, detecting the patterns, allowing their depressions and amplifications. Hermetic and beguiling, sensuous and musical, S orry About the Fire introduces not just a poet, but a stunningly original sensibility.

Genres: Poetry

48 pages, Paperback

Published April 23, 2024

Reviews

[Tina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good poetry! Full review soon!
Thank you to the publisher for my gifted review copy!

[Mark Laliberte · Rating 5 out of 5]

‘Sorry About the Fire’ is a short, dense read. These works aren’t easy but they are contemplative, full of word combinations and speed-bump rhymes that excite the mouth; you’ll want to try reading each poem out loud to really hear the gears of their language click and grind.

[Rebecca Evans · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kinetic, glorious, meteoric.

[August Bourré · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not entirely sure what I just read, but I want to read more of it.