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I Come From the Fire City

I Come from the Fire City | Poem by Eve L Ewing | Film by Daniel Daly

“I come from the fire city / fire came and licked up our houses, lapped them up like they were nothing / drank them like the last dribbling water...” This Motionpoems short film, directed by Daniel Daly and starring Khadija Shari, features Eve L. Ewing’s poem “I come from the fire city.” from her debut collection, Electric Arches (Haymarket Books, 2017). 

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Eve L. Ewing
Motionpoems
short film
I come from the fire city
Electric Arches
Haymarket Books
2017

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