Fire Eater

This remarkable first book traces complex and ultimately transformative connections between the poet and the landscape of her native Northern Minnesota. Author John Minczeski writes: “Kathleen Jesme searches through the rubble of the quiet, relentless fire within. Her poems abound in an exquisite attention to detail and craft. More than variations on the theme of fire, her poems fix upon the soul of fire, which is only possible by close inspection of her own soul, and ours as well.”