We Are the Fire: Poetry

by Toby Olson

The poems in this collection, a selection made by the poet himself of his later work, stand as better than half of what he wishes to save from the years 1970-1984. It is not the tales but the details that he is concerned with. We Are The Fire lights the details.

Genres: Poetry

118 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1984

About the author

Toby Olson (born 1937 Chicago) is an American novelist.
Through high school and his four years in the Navy as a surgical technician, he lived in California, Arizona, and Texas.
He graduated from Occidental College and Long Island University.
Toby Olson has published eight novels, the most recent of which – The Blond Box – appeared from Fiction Collective-2 in 2003; and numerous books of poetry, including Human Nature (New Directions). A new novel, The Bitter Half, is forthcoming. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts, Olson’s novel Seaview received the PEN/Faulkner award for The Most Distinguished Work of American Fiction in 1983. Toby Olson lives in Philadelphia and in North Truro, on Cape Cod.

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