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Synopsis
Fires consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures whose stories are mingled with contemporary themes. Interspersed are highly personal narratives, reflecting on a time of profound inner crisis in the author's life.
"The unwritten novel among the fantasies and aphorisms of Fires is a classic tale."—Stephen Koch, New York Times Book Review
Stephen Koch
"Intersperced with the cris de coeur of ....poems or call them poetic tales - brilliant, short, contorted retellings of Phaedra Achilles - I will be called forth by the leer of life passion....A novel among the fantasies and aphorisms of 'Fires' is a classical tale." -- New York Times Book Review