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Kythe Heller's Firebird sequence probes the capacity of the human spirit to endure under extreme conditions. Here, fire is both a destructive and a unifying force, altering people and landscapes. Runaways, the sick and the poor, a forest and a smoldering mattress - these stunning images burn themselves into the reader's imagination. The female body becomes the site of trauma and myth, a place where ""everything is burning, has been and is always burning."" Fiercely intelligent and relentlessly visceral, Firebird renders the world with singular clarity: ""there were so many things that would look-nice-if they were seen through flames.""

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KYTHE HELLER is a poet, essayist, interdisciplinary artist, and scholar. She is author of the poetry collection Firebird (Arrowsmith), The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra, an edited collection of translations (Stenen Press, with Carolina Gómez- Montoya), Thunder Perfect Mind, a text and image artist book with photographer Meka Tome (Forecast), and several critical essays on mysticism and poetics, published by Cambridge University Press, Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics, and Harvard Divinity School Graduate Journal. Her writing has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Tricycle, and The Southern Review, among other publications; she is grateful for fellowships and grant awards from Harvard University, The Mellon Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (awarded to support a writing fellowship in poetry at The MacDowell Colony), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and The Community of Writers. Her multimedia film and performance work has been exhibited at Harvard Carpenter Center of Visual Arts, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Bard College, Sonoma State University, and elsewhere. In 2017, she founded Vision Lab, a socially-engaged arts and research collective in the future of the human spirit, based at Harvard Divinity School. She is editor-in-chief of Forecast Journal and teaches on the faculty of the Language and Thinking Program at Bard College. Currently, she is completing a doctorate at Harvard University.

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