Sorry About the Fire

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I wanted a good bewildering, / down deep, / as the keep of a castle.

In this debut collection, Coco Collins draws on all of her multidisciplinary enamorations. Questions of time and presumptions of sentience, the language of rhythm and all forms of music, the peripatetic and the ouroboric all find expression in a widely cast net of sympathies rendered through the triple vision of her Irish, French, and Odawa heritage, each checking one against the others, detecting the patterns, allowing their depressions and amplifications. Hermetic and beguiling, sensuous and musical, Sorry About the Fire introduces not just a poet, but a stunningly original sensibility.

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Colleen Coco Collins [she/they] is an interdisciplinary artist of Irish, French, and Odawa descent,working in songwriting, performance, poetry and visual arts. Shes worked as a gallery director, inforestry, fossil preparation, and renovation; as an autism support worker, teacher, and womens sheltercounsellor. Her writing, music, and art practice centers on temporality, presumptions of sentience,subversion, rhythm, gesture, geographies, biophonies, frequencies, the ouroboric, the peripatetic, love andthe polyglottic. Hailing from Antler River/Deshkan Ziibiing/London, Ontario, Coco has studied atuniversities in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, New Zealand, and Ireland. She lives litorally in rural PortGreville, Mikmaki/Nova Scotia amidst crows, coyotes, grackles, bees, humpback, lichen and fox.