{"product_id":"turn-up-the-heat-new-poems","title":"Turn Up the Heat: New Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmerican poet Ruth Danon hates and fears the cold in all its forms - literal, metaphorical, external, internal. In \u003ci\u003eTurn Up the Heat\u003c\/i\u003e she ventures into the chill and explores as well as its problematic opposite. In poems that range widely in form and style and that travel through place and time, Danon introduces us to St. Anthony, who stole fire from the devil and heated the icy desert, and heretic and genius Giordano Bruno, whose prescient astronomical vision led him led him to be burned at the stake. As she moves from Renaissance Italy to modern Sardinia and frosty upstate New York, from the desert to the domestic, Danon's peregrinations occur within the context of our own times—of a planet grown increasingly hot, a pandemic as cruel as an inquisition, of hotheaded and often coldhearted politics of America, as she contends with personal loneliness, isolation, guilt, and longing. How, she asks us, can we make and find the fire that warms, sustains, and illumines us?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTurn Up the Heat\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautiful book, at turns tender, wry, and heartbreaking. Whether she's writing about growing older, or the challenges of domesticity, or the fickleness of the English language, Ruth Danon has created a hymn to our complex present and our anxious, unknowable future. These poems altered me as I was reading them, and they are going to continue to stay with me for a very long time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e— Saïd Sayrafiezadeh\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Estrangement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her stark and truly remarkable new book, \u003ci\u003eTurn Up the Heat\u003c\/i\u003e, Ruth Danon reveals just how much is on edge, from the vast, incremental movements of time, space, and the weather to the tiniest fragile tendril or thread. These poems quite sensitively contend with damage, scarring, alarms, ruins, and forces that threaten relationships, desires, and life itself—including the icy threat of aging. Yet, there is mitigation - the happy swerve of an unexpected cat in the continuum. In her book Danon conjures stillness and rest in contrast to disquiet. In this the poet is aided by the occult powers of Giordano Bruno and St. Anthony of Egypt, bringing light and warmth to the physical and emotional desert she describes. A wondrous collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Stephen Massimilla,\u003c\/b\u003e author of \u003ci\u003eFrank Dark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth Danon's Turn Up the Heat is elegiac, edgy, and disquieting. The book takes its main threads from St. Anthony, the saint of lost things, and from Giordano Bruno, who was burned alive for believing in a heliocentric solar system. In articulating a new language to think about losses—in the form of feeling coldness and the cold—Danon takes on aging, the notion of freedom, the idea of bodily autonomy, and the physicality of the self-made real. This is a serious and effective book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sean Singer,\u003c\/b\u003e author of \u003ci\u003eToday in the Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":54526389125395,"sku":"9788195781645","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/9788195781645ita.jpg?v=1785852493","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/turn-up-the-heat-new-poems","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}