I Have Nothing to Say about Fire - Paperback

by Marjorie Saiser (Author)

"Marjorie Saiser's luminous new poems are as essential as family. They're filled with our dead, never far off, filled with all the ways loving goes right and goes wrong. Living with others, wanting always, can never be simple. These poems, crafted with great skill, with great care, conjure for us the possibility of a world 'where even the silenced can sing.' With immense generosity, this poet offers a prayer that applies to us all: 'Let what I did and failed to do/drop like a leaf from my hand.' Amen." -Peggy Shumaker, author of Toucan Nest

Author Biography

I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT FIRE is Marjorie Saiser's fifth full-length book of poems. She co-edited Road Trip (The Backwaters Press, 2003), which features interviews with writers who teach, and she also co-edited Times of Sorrow / Times of Grace (The Backwaters Press, 2002), a collection of prose and poetry by women of the Great Plains. Saiser's awards include the WILLA Award for Poetry in 2014, four Nebraska Book Awards, the Nebraska Literary Heritage Award, an Academy of American Poets Award, the Vreeland Award, and the Leo Love Award. She was named Distinguished Artist in Poetry by the Nebraska Arts Council in 2009. Saiser's poems have been published in the anthologies Women Write Resistance and The Untidy Season as well as in American Life in Poetry, The Writer's Almanac, Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review, Nimrod, Rattle, The Chattahoochee Review, Cream City Review, Smartish Pace, burntdistrict, RHINO, The Fourth River, Field, and Cimarron Review.