The World Is on Fire. Joni Tevis

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      © 2015, Text by Joni Tevis

      All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher: Milkweed Editions, 1011 Washington Avenue South, Suite 300, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415.

      (800) 520-6455

       www.milkweed.org

      Published 2015 by Milkweed Editions

      Cover design by Mary Austin Speaker

      Cover photo by Alberto Masnovo

      Author photo by David Bernardy

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      FIRST EDITION

      Milkweed Editions, an independent nonprofit publisher, gratefully acknowledges sustaining support from the Jerome Foundation; the Lindquist & Vennum Foundation; the McKnight Foundation; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Target Foundation; and other generous contributions from foundations, corporations, and individuals. Also, this activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund, and a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota. For a full listing of Milkweed Editions supporters, please visit www.milkweed.org.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Tevis, Joni.

      [Essays. Selections]

      The world is on fire: scrap, treasure, and songs of apocalypse / Joni Tevis. -- First edition.

      pages; cm

      ISBN 978-1-57131-898-5 (ebook)

      I. Title.

      PS3620.E95A6 2015

      814'.6--dc23

      2014038727

      Milkweed Editions is committed to ecological stewardship. We strive to align our book production practices with this principle, and to reduce the impact of our operations in the environment. We are a member of the Green Press Initiative, a nonprofit coalition of publishers, manufacturers, and authors working to protect the world’s endangered forests and conserve natural resources. The World Is On Fire was printed on acid-free 100% postconsumer-waste paper by Friesens Corporation.

       For David

      And for all this, nature is never spent...

      There lives the dearest freshness deep down things...

      GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844–89)

      “GOD’S GRANDEUR”

       CONTENTS

       The Sarah Winchester House

       Buddy Holly, View-Master, and the A-Bomb

       Rock City and Other Fairy Tales of the Atomic Age

       Backstage with John the Beloved Disciple

       Something Like the Fire

       The Measure of My Days

       (Buddy Holly Reprise)

       ACT TWO

       The Lay of the Land

       Warp and Weft

       Brain Sweat and Blueprints

       Coathook in an Empty Schoolhouse

       The Scissorman

       We All Drink from that Fiery Spring

       (Ode to Heavy Industry)

       Hammer Price

       (Song of the Auctioneer)

       Pacing the Siege Floor

       INTERMISSION

       Girl Power:

       Ode to the Demolition Derby

       ACT THREE

       What the Body Knows

       The World Is On Fire:

       The Cave of the Apocalypse

       Touch the Bones

       Somebody to Love

       FINALE

       Some Memory of Daylight

       Notes and Acknowledgments

      If a thing is iron, then what? It rusts, you see. That’s fire, too. The world is on fire. Start your pieces in the paper that way. Just say in big letters, “The World Is On Fire.”

      That will make ’em look up.

      SHERWOOD

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