Heliopolis

by Lisa Jarnot

Poetry. "I am a soldier of this wicker chair, I am / brandishing a welding torch and drill, / I am the island with the shepherd and the / sheep, I am waking up in Bakersfield in / rain, in a corroded room, near the / farmteams in the vivid dreams of rain, / and in turning in the kerosene being slowly / doused in fire, I am, toward sunlight, / strangled by a shepherd girl, I am a salesman / of the islands of this currency..." ("The Specific Incendiaries of Springtime"). This is the latest book from Lisa Jarnot, whose book SOME OTHER KIND OF MISSION (Burning Deck) is a bestseller. Jarnot lives and works in New York City where she is the editor of the St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter. Spiral bound.

Spiral-bound

First published January 1, 1998