(FB2) The World is on Fire by Joni Tevis

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The World is on Fire
Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of the Apocalypse
by Joni Tevis

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• Genres: essays
• Author: Joni Tevis
• Release date: May 19, 2015
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Format: paperback, 304 pages
• Language: english
• ISBN: 9781571313478 (1571313478)

About The Book

Marked by the end-times sermons of her Southern youth, Joni Tevis has spent her life both haunted by and drawn to visions of apocalypse: Nuclear fallout, economic collapse, personal tragedy. This collection follows the pilgrimage she undertook to put her childhood dread to rest. Standing at Buddy Holly’s memorial in the middle of a farmer’s field recalls Doom Town — the model American suburb built in the Nevada desert to measure the devastation of a nuclear bomb. Wandering the abandoned shop floors of shuttered factories in her hometown conjures landscapes submerged by flooding. And her visceral experience of remote Alaskan wilderness merges into a meditation on the sublime instinctual joy, as well as the unutterable sorrow, that can result from a woman carrying a child in her body.

Tevis builds these essays with the raw materials of our world — nails and beams, dirt and stone, bones and blood — and fills them with the essence of our popular culture: Liberace’s trills, Freddy Mercury’s pleas, and Buddy Holly’s hypnotic gaze. What results is a whole empowered by the richness and deep interconnection of its parts: In courageously facing up to the worst that may befall us, she has created a living testament to the promise and necessity of death and rebirth.

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