The Evolution Of Fire: Essays On Crisis And Becoming

The Evolution Of Fire: Essays On Crisis And Becoming

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The Evolution Of Fire Is Stunningly WrittenVivid In Imagery, In The Braiding Together Of Language, And In The Honoring Of Every Person It Shines A Light On.Hanif Abdurraqib, Author Of ThereS Always This Yearfrom The Celebrated Author Of Limber, A Luminous Collection Of Essays About Crisis, Hope, And The Decision To Resist Or Embrace EvolutionA Book About Time, For Our Time.Crisis Is An Agent Of Evolution, And Angela Pelster Knows What It Means To Evolve. As A Child, She Burned Grass To Keep Weeds At Bay And Watched Tadpoles Transform. She Basked In The Warmth Of Her FatherS Love But Was Burned By His Rage, And She Witnessed A Sudden, Unnamable Change Occur In Her Older Sister After An Encounter With A Stranger In A White Van. In Adulthood, She Survived The Explosion Of Her Marriage, The Destruction Of Her Burning Home, And A Year Spent As The Single Mother Of A Toddler Without A Home Of Their Own. And Like Us All, She Has Weathered The Upheaval Of Our Current AtmospherePolitical Instability, Climate Change, Mass Extinction.But In Spite Of The WorldS Violence, Pelster Manages To Remain Open To Its Beauty, Deciding Not To Resist Change, But To Give Herself Over To It And Let Evolution Make Her Into A New Animal. She Plumbs The Depths Of Ancestral Knowledge To Uncover The Scale Of Our Ancient Capacity For Adaptation, From HumankindS Early Harnessing Of Fire To The Grandmothers Responsible For Our Continued Existence.Meditative And Curious, Pulsing With Fascination, Fear, And The Untamable Human Spirit, The Evolution Of Fire Contemplates Who We Are Now And What We Still Might Become.

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