The Lives of the Saints and Everything

Cleveland State University Press, 1993

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Critical Praise

I think it is no wonder that this book was awarded the prestigious CSU prize. It belongs in the company, perhaps near the head of the company, of the best books of poetry of recent years.

Firer's poems are always rife with startling original images which haunt and give pause-

Selected Poems

My Mother's Rosaries

The Mongolian Contortionist with Pigeons