Ring of Fire is a book of experimental lyric poetry in the tradition of American Poetry beginning with Walt Whitman and continuing through the Beat Generation, the New York School, and contemporary Language Poetry. Jarnot's work represents a synthesis of traditional modes of verse alongside more fragmented avant-garde writing practices. The poems in this collection resonate with homages to the metaphysical masters of the 17th Century while commenting on popular culture in the Western world.
I. The Book of Providence
The Bridge
Dictionary
Tell Me Poem
Ode
Brooklyn Anchorage
What In Fire Did I, Firelover, Starter of Fires, Love?
Found Text
Autobiography
Still Life
Valley of the Shadow of the Dogs
The New Life
The Age of the Velocipede
II. Sea Lyrics
III. Dumb Duke Death
Dumb Duke Death
IV. Heliopolis
Suddenly, Last Summer
O Life Force of Supernalness of World
Ye White Antarctic Birds
Poem Beginning with a Line by Frank Lima
O Razorback Clams
Moo Is Om Backwards
Song of the Chinchilla
You, Armadillo
On the Lemur
Aardvark
Song from the Greek
Lake of Fire
The Song Between
Old
The Eightfold Path
Right View
Right Aspiration
Right Speech
Right Action
Right Energy
Right Mind
Right Labor
Right Meditation
The Specific Incendiaries of Springtime
