<p>From an automaton navigating a forbidden relationship with a man in post-apocalyptic Australia to a reimagining of a friendship between Franklin Pierce and Nathaniel Hawthorne Nawrocki's short fiction ranges from futuristic to historical and everywhere in between. <em>House Fire</em> the winner of the 2009 James White Poetry Prize judged by Mark Doty-a book that was never published-blazes with poems that are erudite and precise even when confronting the messiness of love grief and mortality.</p><p><br></p><p>The work of the late Jim Nawrocki who died of cancer in 2018 is poignant rangy and genre-bending and House Fire is a debut collection from a literary voice gone far too soon.</p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(38 40 42 1)>These poems are the work of a hungry ghost a gifted young man with a keen eye and silver tongue who felt in the keenest most intimate way the transience of all things.&nbsp;Jim Nawrocki alternates between a Buddhist calm and the ferocious appetite for the life of those condemned to know they will die young.&nbsp;In these splendid verses only Jim's art is resolute and invariably mature.-Edmund White</span></p><p><br></p><p>An unsung genius in life Jim Nawrocki's poems and stories left me wanting much more and knowing my hunger wouldn't be satisfied.&nbsp;Alternating between the domestic the postapocalyptic and the cosmic&nbsp;<em>House Fire</em>&nbsp;marks not only the beginning but also the end of Jim's vision. This ironic&nbsp;circularity perfectly encapsulates his erotics. If we are lucky more posthumous work will grace us with his peculiar&nbsp;wisdom.</p><p><span style=color: rgba(38 40 42 1)>-</span>Michael Walsh editor of&nbsp;<em>Queer Nature</em>&nbsp;and author of&nbsp;<em>Creep Love</em>.</p><p><br></p>
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