{"product_id":"fire-at-the-big-top-9781970256123","title":"Fire at the Big Top","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe 80th anniversary of the circus fire looms \/ like burnt smoke over water. Now you are \/\/ both the boy and the girl and the only one \/ left to tell this story.\u003c\/em\u003e So begins this collection of flaming poems that illuminates sexual love and lights up the circus. Yannone gives each performer a sonnet in a corona that includes the wire walker, the clown, the human cannonball, the bandleader. Before you've finished reading this page-turner, which is both a jeremiad and a joy, you'll even hear from the arsonist, himself, who intones, \u003cem\u003eThere is nothing on Earth I wouldn't want \/ To watch burn.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Lillo Way, \u003cem\u003eFlying: Trapeze Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn erotic circus of the glittering, gaudy, and heartbreaking, \u003cem\u003eFire at the Big Top\u003c\/em\u003e is nothing short of electrifying. Yannone has crafted a subversive world of queer performance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand expression, where poems are crowns, matches, acrobats, clowns, knives, and rings and their leaping movements unfurl like colorful scarves or flaming swords. The most\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eintricate magic trick, this collection shows us how sex and love can turn the mundane into illusion and spectacle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Ansley Clark, \u003cem\u003eBloodline\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFire at the Big Top i\u003c\/em\u003es a waxed-paraffin blaze of a read! A story of darling dare, wire walking, and combustion. A frenzy of love, destruction and tragedy in circus proportions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Catherine Ronan, \u003cem\u003eElemental Skin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Moonpath Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781970256123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.14d","brand":"Sandra Yannone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52571193901237,"sku":"9781970256123","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/fire-at-the-big-top-9781970256123","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}