{"product_id":"burning-oracle-sandra-simonds-paperback","title":"Burning Oracle -- Sandra Simonds, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA fierce, visionary book-length poem\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ci\u003eBurning Oracle\u003c\/i\u003e is a visionary, book-length poem told from the fractures of a world on fire where myth, memory, and contemporary life collide. Cassandra--seer, mother, survivor--wanders through forests of digital noise and historical trauma, her voice both ancient and urgently new. At the heart of the poem is a pilgrimage to the grave of poet Paul Celan where she traces personal loss within the wider context of inherited trauma--particularly the Holocaust--and seeks meaning in the act of remembering. As floods rise and fires rage, the personal and historical ignite a mythic voice. Through the commonplace of stained dresses, shattered screens, and supermarket aisles, Cassandra encounters figures like Goya, Reynard the fox, and Celan himself, weaving their stories into an intertextual, image-rich landscape. \u003ci\u003eBurning Oracle\u003c\/i\u003e is a feminist reckoning, a personal mythography, and a testament to the power of poetry to animate the archive of history, memory, and everyday life. [sample poem] *\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\nFrom II No source, my Seine, a German one instead, Sixteen \u0026amp; reading Hölderlin's Der Rhein at the foot of a massive statue of Goethe and Schiller. Stupid anorexic American girl.\n\nBut not really American. And not really French.\n\nAnd not really Turkish. And not really Syrian.\n\nAnd not really Spanish.\n\nAnd the tourists at the camp. Was I a tourist? Squeal of the cassette tape rewinding\n\nPink Floyd's The Wall. Ah, when you speak German, no one can tell you're American. When you speak English no one can tell you're French. Too sick to go on. \u003ci\u003eAnne of Green Gables \u003c\/i\u003eFigurines.\n\nI'm always too sick to go on, that's\n\nmy charm--a gray\n\nruin turned maroon turned black. * It is easier to go mad, Francisco says, than one might think. Easy to lose things.\n\nPeople too. Perhaps too easy.\n\nStep inside and you may not\n\ncome back. He listed the colors he liked: Black.\n\nBlack.\n\nBlack.\n\nBlack.\n\nHe told himself to stay inside the painting of the chartreuse river, stay inside, Reader, and he found his arms roping and looping into Cassandra holding a tray of dead pigeons.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sandra Simonds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.04\" H x 6.05\" L x 0.29\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780819502162\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53159633518891,"sku":"9780819502162","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9780819502162.jpg?v=1775539062","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/burning-oracle-sandra-simonds-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}