With Her Hair on Fire - Softcover

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Reminiscent of the City Lights Pocket Poets Series in both size and scope, these 26 prose poems explore, then quietly explode, what we know of familiar terrains. Whether taking time for rest after a visit from houseguests, deciphering the peculiar rituals of church, or recalling a string of old loves come and gone, each speaker occupies a space between quiet and clamor. Her domain is the bedrock beneath love, friendship, work, and family. She may break it apart and stitch it back together, but the seams are always visible. These poems aim to complicate how we situate ourselves in a wounded world, obsessively pulling up the bandage.

"Prahl’s collection bursts with melodious brevity, packing a punch. Each piece is stunningly wrapped and delivered to the reader page after page as a glimpse into a sacred time and place. With Her Hair on Fire, is powerful, yet subtle, unforgettable. Read it! You’ll be happy you did."—Jennifer Juneau, author of MAZE

"There’s a lovely meander to Christy Prahl's prose poems, a precision, a grace, a natural drift that follows the path a mind wanders through memory, emotion, and sensation. They move freely in multiple directions, from wry to tender to surreal, pinning down small moments like butterflies to a spreading board. I could read a thousand pages of them."—Justin Hamm, author of O Death and Drinking Guinness With the Dead

"Annie Ernaux just won the Nobel Prize for writing great things in miniature. Christy Prahl writes even tinier pieces and with as much talent and intensity. In With Her Hair on Fire, she lights up the page with words that punch like poetry and tell stories like prose. There are so many interesting narrators / speakers in this collection, and I trust them all. Everyone knows their own joy and hurt. It’s a pleasure to hear their words. In one amazing poem, she writes, “It’s not so much to sanctify them as to tame who I was when I loved them.” These poems sanctify us all. An entire universe of people trying to find a way to love and work and survive happens on these pages. There are railroads. There are hotdogs. Punkers show up to hear Joey Ramone. Hummingbirds show up at the feeder, ready to fight for sugar. The chickens will wake you up before they become dinner. I hear Denis Johnson in these pieces. I hear Jean Rhys. I hear the magnitude of Prahl’s imagination. I feel like I could quote every piece in this collection. In one poem, Prahl writes, “The Kinks might steal our children.” Rock n’ roll always does that. So does Christy Prahl. Open this book and you’ll stop the world to finish it."—Dave Newman, author of Better than the Best American Poetry

"With poems that shimmer like roadside heat, With Her Hair on Fire maps the liminal spaces between domestic ritual and personal rebellion, where solitude is sensual and mid-life love is the belt of a cinched-tight arm. The mechanics of these poems are humming. Christy Prahl understands the absurd majesty of primates with egos in a world where no one quite connects the way they should and yet—everything plugs into everything else."—Amy Baskin, author of Skull and Night Hag

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