A Thousand Flames

"A Thousand Flames is the debut poetry collection by artist and writer Corey Pressman, gathering poems written across several decades that move through place, memory, and personal transformation. Organized into eleven sections exploring longing, connection to water and the natural world, love, and the strange beauty of ordinary things, the collection ranges in setting from a hilltop in Mill Valley, California, to the excavated ruins of Çatalhöyük. Drawing on Pressman's background as a visual artist and anthropologist, the poems attend closely to the small, specific details that hold a place or a moment together, tracing how meaning accumulates over a life spent paying attention"--