What Fire by Alice Miller Dario Jaramillo The lesson we learn is

The lesson we learn is the grim absurdity of looking for lessons in atrocities: “sometimes I think wisdom from history is like that odd shoe / you find in the street & wonder how the person got home”

giving them an international gathering of poems of great personal force

All three pieces were commissioned for performance in Life Science Centre Planetarium

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The title of his eleventh collection

What Fire by Alice Miller Dario Jaramillo The lesson we learn isWhat Fire is about how to continue as catastrophe crawls in, when the climate crisis has its grip on us all, the internet has been shut down, and the buildings are burning up. What happens when the philosophers never arrive? What songs are still worth singing? In her third collection, Alice Miller takes a fierce, unflinching look at the world we live in, at what we have made, and whether it is possible to change.