Set to Music a Wildfire

By Ruth Awad

Book Overview

Winner of the 2018 Ohioana Poetry Award

In Lebanon during the civil war, a teenage boy and his family witness leveled cities, displaced civilians, the aftermath of massacres. Resources are scarce and uncertainty is everywhere. What does it mean to survive? To leave behind a home torn apart by war? To carry the burden of what you've seen across an ocean?

These poems follow a man in search of security as he leaves his country for America, falls in love, and becomes a single father to three daughters. Through the perspective of one man, his family, and even his country, Set to Music a Wildfire explores the violence of living, the guilt of surviving, the loneliness of faith, and the impossible task of belonging.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930508530
• ISBN13: 9781930508538
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Southern Indiana Review Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 8.2"