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Jay Udall is the author of five previous books of poetry, including The Welcome Table, winner of the New Mexico Book Award. He teaches at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana, where he also serves as poet-in-residence.
"Because a Fire in Our Heads is sublime revelation, a book
of place poems set in 'this house whose walls we've never found.'
Memory lives in this house, and love, and caverns of grief, as well
as dislocation, and war, and death, and the terrible beauty of
human passage. Jay Udall's poems are lighted throughout by 'thick
profusions' that might have 'startled the air in spring.' The book
is a triumph." --Darrell Bourque, former Louisiana Poet
Laureate and author of Where I Waited
"Jay Udall has composed a book haunted by violence, killing, war,
and nature's own disasters, daring us not to look away, yet also
offering at our most sunken depths 'a buoyancy from nowhere /
lifting, some gravity pulling up.' Amid 'skin, scale, fur / and
feather, ' through dirt and sky, although our species is 'the kind
who murder our own in schools and churches, ' Udall teaches us to
love and praise creation: 'the living work, the thick and quick of
it.' I am grateful for the precision and tenderness of this poet."
--Alicia Ostriker, author of Waiting for the
Light
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