false 3983047 1 Kathleen Jesme¹s Fire Eater traced complex and ultimately transformative connections between the poet and the landscape of her native Northern Minnesota painted with images of oak, cedar, pine, water and changing light. In an opening prismatic sequence of poems, she movingly chronicles the Great Fire of 1910 that took a forest and a town, leaving mass graves, darkness, and erasure in its wake. Jesme ventures into the darkness in search of light, as she explores the intersections of the fires of her own past and communal memories of the 1910 conflagration. Her deft turns of phrase and language vibrant with restrained passion illuminate a clarifying and disquieting vision. Fire Eater concludes with a tranced evocation of her Novitiate within convent walls, as she explores a deepening access to the interior: "the heart of the woods: a furnace of light." 4028858 1 2003 Fire Eater: Poems 0 0 0 0 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3983047