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Pub Date Feb 17 2026 | Archive Date Feb 17 2026


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Description

Fire Series began as an experiment in working recursively through the specialized diction of fire investigators, using technical phrases such as “structured fire,” “foliage freeze,” and “fire interval” to generate poems. Fire is both destructive and regenerative; at times vengeful, at others cleansing. The first mention of fire in Genesis comes after Adam and Eve’s expulsion from Eden. In Greek mythology, Prometheus steals fire from the gods for humankind. Fire becomes metaphorically layered—as knowledge, as desire, as anger. The book entertains the many strands of this fiery lineage as it undertakes a poetic investigation into grief and sex, loneliness and restlessness within intimacy, and language’s ability to make, unmake, and remake things.

Fire Series began as an experiment in working recursively through the specialized diction of fire investigators, using technical phrases such as “structured fire,” “foliage freeze,” and “fire...


A Note From the Publisher

Kelly Hoffer is a poet and book artist. Her debut collection of poetry, Undershore, was selected by Diana Khoi Nguyen as the winner of the Lightscatter Press Prize. Her chapbook the photo I don’t write about was a Netsuke Micro Series Recipient. Her poetry was recognized as a finalist for the National Poetry Series in both 2020 and 2021. She currently teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan as the Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry.

Kelly Hoffer is a poet and book artist. Her debut collection of poetry, Undershore, was selected by Diana Khoi Nguyen as the winner of the Lightscatter Press Prize. Her chapbook the photo I don’t...


Advance Praise

"Reading Kelly Hoffer’s Fire Series, I am reminded that Anne Carson, a poet as attentive to contradiction wrought within a feeling as Hoffer is, once declared in an interview: ‘If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it.’ And verse, as printing traditions go, is the field slashed and furrowed for that human life fleeing a feeling only to meet it at the exit of an expression. Composed as curious and patient acts of devotion, Hoffer’s poems are evidence for how she has remained interested in her own grieving as a way of attending another’s, and as a way of practicing the life-long arc of witness for the loss of both language and love that we all must learn. ‘How,’ she asks, ‘do I protect my mother from my lyric tendency?’ This is a collection that frets between mute grief and vociferous, feral desire to envision these not only as adventures of cognition and the nervous system, but also as gauntlets thrown to a feckless language that betrays us at the slightest provocation. Hoffer has turned, here, an ear to those wailing sounds of weeping and ecstasy until they combust into music. Fire Series is ablaze with lyrical demonstrations that a thought can only warm us if it flickers between certainty and doubt." -Divya Victor, author of CURB

 

"Reading Kelly Hoffer’s Fire Series, I am reminded that Anne Carson, a poet as attentive to contradiction wrought within a feeling as Hoffer is, once declared in an interview: ‘If prose is a house...


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  • Feature at AWP 2026 
  • National print and online review attention
  • Print and online features 
  • Select author appearances 
  • Social media outreach 
  • Online promotion 
  • Feature at AWP 2026 

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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9780822967682
PRICE $20.00 (USD)
PAGES 136

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