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The world is on fire : scrap, treasure, and songs of apocalypse / Joni Tevis.
- Title
- The world is on fire : scrap, treasure, and songs of apocalypse / Joni Tevis.
- Author
- Tevis, Joni
- Publication
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2015.
- ©2015
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- 304 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Grappling with a fear rooted in her by the end times sermons of her Southern youth, Joni Tevis seeks out apocalypse, destruction, and their aftermath in this heart-wrenching, but ultimately triumphant collection. Mining sources as disparate as the Bible and nuclear history, Tevis couples seemingly unrelated phenomena to reveal deeper meaning: reflections on Buddy Holly's last days lead to the Doom Town, where the American government tested the effects of nuclear weapons on suburban populations. Liberace's last days are juxtaposed with the entertainment complex the military built around weapons testing. Relating her own experience of childbirth to an Italian medical museum and ANWR, she explores both creating and losing life in a world freighted with danger. Throughout, Tevis brings a new sense of wonder to the objects and phenomena surrounding us, guiding the reader through a subtle arc from dread to acceptance, of the cycles of death and rebirth that rule our lives, even when we resist them. "--
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- Essays. Selections
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- Essays.
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- Contents
- Overture. What Looks Like Mad Disorder: The Sarah Winchester House -- Act one. Damn Cold in February: Buddy Holly, View-Master, and the A-Bomb -- Beautiful Beyond Belief: Rock City and Other Fairy Tales of the Atomic Age -- Ten Years You Own It -- Backstage with John the Beloved Disciple -- Something Like the Fire -- The Measure of My Days (Buddy Holly Reprise) -- Act two. The Lay of the Land -- Warp and Weft -- Brain Sweat and Blueprints -- Coathook in an Empty Schoolhouse -- The Scissorman -- We All Drink from that Fiery Spring (Ode to Heavy Industry) -- Hammer Price (Song of the Auctioneer) -- Pacing the Siege Floor -- Intermission. Girl Power: Ode to the Demolition Derby -- Act three. What the Body Knows -- The World Is On Fire: Cave of the Apocalypse -- Touch the Bones -- Somebody to Love -- Finale. Some Memory of Daylight.
- ISBN
- 9781571313478
- 1571313478
- 9781571318985 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2014038727
- OCLC
- 886484930
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library