The poems in The Story of Ash range over a variety of concerns from the tawdry to the sublime, all the while exploring desire and love and loss. The poems are largely urban, but the imagery is far-reaching, as in this conflation of lyrical details about a house that has burnt down, probably the result of arson: ''...it was dazzling in its desolation, in its heartbreak,/like the fallen nest I'd found, hiking in the woods with my once wife,/frazzle of feathers among the twigs and the grasses.''
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The poems in The Story of Ash range over a variety of concerns from the tawdry to the sublime, all the while exploring desire and love and loss. The poems are largely urban, but the imagery is far-reaching, as in this conflation of lyrical details about a house that has burnt down, probably the result of arson: ''...it was dazzling in its desolation, in its heartbreak,/like the fallen nest I'd found, hiking in the woods with my once wife,/frazzle of feathers among the twigs and the grasses.''
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