Flammable, Inflammable: Poems, 1991-2006

By Greg Darms

The poems in this collection by teacher and naturalist Greg Darms "represent a rough chronology, as well as an approximate topography" of his life and work on the West Coast from British Columbia to California and back to Oregon. Material and occasions for the poems range widely, too: encounters with foxglove, heart cockles, dragonflies, grebes and spotted skink share a phenomenological space with sheriff's reports, photographs, texts and scores, flash floods, and his aging father. By turns meditative, epistomological, and elegiac, Darms' poems signal a kind of "return, a venture into the contiguous world."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1887853227
• ISBN13: 9781887853224
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Radiolarian Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Beautifully written!

These are some of the most beautiful poems I've ever read! I had never seen Greg Darms work until recently and I was pleased to find he had a book coming out. I particularly love "Picnic" : "Our skin don't you think is only so thick/and what connects us at times is our enmity." Lovely! Lovely! Lovely! A book of poems not to be missed...