"From the verses of gnostic antiquity to Whitman's drawn chorus of lading, from winter wilderness to the dazzling volunteering imagery of her solitary voice, Sarah Vap startles again and again with a quiet, hermetic originality that American poetry has never successfully supported before-- she is brilliant and something entirely new under our sun."          - Norman Dubie

"Dummy Fire is a riveting book, remarkable for its ferocious economy of form, its landscape-haunted, but wide-ranging field of reference, and its explosive implication. The poems often have the pressurized inventiveness of a curse or a protective spell and like a curse or spell, they lay bare the vulnerabilities of the body. Sarah Vap combines an utterly unsentimental domestic tenderness with an attentiveness to the lives of plants and animals that never approaches 'nature poetry' because it never seems separated from that realm. With its laconic, purposefully innovative adjustments of language, Dummy Fire stands out."        - Forrest Gander


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                                                 Reviews of Dummy Fire:

                                                  In Blackbird, by Anna Journey
                                                  In Octopus, by Melanie Hubbard