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    The world is on fire : scrap, treasure, and songs of apocalypse / Joni Tevis.
    by Tevis, Joni, author.
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    Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2015.
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  • American essays -- 21st century.
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    9781571313478 (paperback) :
    1571313478 (paperback)
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    304 pages ; 22 cm
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    First edition.
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    Overture. What Looks Like Mad Disorder: The Sarah Winchester House -- Act one. Damn Cold in February: Buddy Holly, View-Master, and the A-Bomb -- Beautiful Beyond Belief: Rock City and Other Fairy Tales of the Atomic Age -- Ten Years You Own It -- 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: Cave of the Apocalypse -- Touch the Bones -- Somebody to Love -- Finale. Some Memory of Daylight.
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    "Grappling with a fear rooted in her by the end times sermons of her Southern youth, Joni Tevis seeks out apocalypse, destruction, and their aftermath in this heart-wrenching, but ultimately triumphant collection. Mining sources as disparate as the Bible and nuclear history, Tevis couples seemingly unrelated phenomena to reveal deeper meaning..."--
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