As One Fire Consumes Another

Winner of The 2018 Orison Poetry Prize, selected by Vandana Khanna What happens when metaphysics and social critique meet? Poetry that has to find a new form to express the tension it embodies. John Sibley Williams’ newspaper-like columns in As One Fire Consumes Another do just that. Here, transcendent vision and trenchant social insight meet, wrestle, and end up revitalizing one another. "John Sibley Williams confronts the violent side of American history and its effect on our notions