# Bonfire Opera

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- Book: [Bonfire Opera](https://www.bookquiver.com/danusha-lameris/bonfire-opera) ([Bonfire Opera.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/danusha-lameris/bonfire-opera.md))
- Authors: [Danusha Lameris](https://www.bookquiver.com/danusha-lameris)
- Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
- ISBN: 978-08-2296-605-0
- Pages: 62
- Published: 2020-02-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Winner, 2021 Northern California Book AwardFinalist, 2021 Patterson Poetry Prize Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-man’s land. Here in Bonfire Opera, grief and Eros grapple in the same domain. A bullet-hole through the heart, a house full of ripe persimmons, a ghost in a garden. Coyotes cry out on the hill, and lovers find themselves kissing, “bee-stung, drunk” in the middle of road. Here, the dust is holy, as is the dark, unknown. These are poems that praise the impossible, wild world, finding beauty in its wake.