The Fire Passage OH " --The Los Angeles Times

" --The Los Angeles Times

it suddenly feels like she has no life at all

poignant text and unexpectedly levitous illustrations

the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it--the Southern Reach--has collapsed in on itself in confusion

author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea

The Fire Passage OH " --The Los Angeles TimesWinner of the 2025 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry selected by Pulitzer Prize recipient Diane Seuss, The Fire Passage is a lyric descent in the epic tradition, traveling unto realms unmoored by extreme weather and mysterious illness before resurfacing to the light of a world remade. Recording her experience of a health crisis amid continuous natural disaster, poet Lisa Wells recontextualizes biblically scaled plagues as the entropic catastrophes