Dummy Fire is a riveting book, remarkable for its ferocious economy of form, its landscape-haunted, but wide-ranging field of reference, and its explosive implication. The poems often have the pressurized inventiveness of a curse or a protective spell and like a curse or spell, they lay bare the vulnerabilities of the body. Sarah Vap combines an utterly unsentimental domestic tenderness with an attentiveness to the lives of plants and animals that never approaches nature poetry because it never seems separated from that realm. With its laconic, purposively innovative adjustments of language, Dummy Fire stands out. Forrest Gander
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"A poetic image can touch the depths before it disturbs the surface, as Bachelard says. If we understand this principle, we're ready to receive Sarah Vap's radical imaginative leaps in her debut poetry collection, Dummy Fire (winner of the 2006 Saturnalia Book Prize). In Vap's poems, we encounter such surprises as a dress with the secret memory of a cow, and "pelvis-shaped clouds" that move over a snake-handler as he burns a tick off a snake. She writes often of mothers and sisters, landscapes and mystics, with a cowgirl-nervy wit balanced by tenderness. Throughout Dummy Fire, Vap raises questions about what is authentic and true versus what is fake or "dummy"--like trees witnessing a deliberate fire, or a mysterious nomad that may, or may not be, Santa."--Anna Journey, Blackbird
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"Dummy Fire is a riveting book, remarkable for its ferocious economy of form, its landscape-haunted, but wide-ranging field of reference, and its explosive implication. The poems often have the pressurized inventiveness of a curse or a protective spell and like a curse or spell, they lay bare the vulnerabilities of the body. Sarah Vap combines an utterly unsentimental domestic tenderness with an attentiveness to the lives of plants and animals that never approaches "nature poetry" because it never seems separated from that realm. With its laconic, purposively innovative adjustments of language, Dummy Fire stands out." (Forrest Gander )
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