Description
This “praise piece to molten metal—duplicitious, artful and harrowing — and to its handlers” is Nor Hall’s prose “character sketch” of iron and iron workers (“the people who work iron and can’t keep their hands off it”). Offering a brief history, mythology and psychology of the metal ifon—both alchemical and industrial—IRONS IN THE FIRE is itself a passionate, inherently erotic contribution to elemental poetics.
“Nor Hall has culled new flowers from old vines. The myths and their figures are familiar—but her way of being with her symbols is fresh, bold, and especially sensitive.”—James Hillman
