Carolyn Zonailo celebrates the luminous in everyday life in poems of deep listening, dream and observation. In Fight Fire With Spirit: Selected & New Poems, drawn from over twenty years work, Zonailo’s lyric voice paints with clarity and humour a vivid world, at once mythic and recognizable. Nature and place, whether wilderness or urban, are woven into the collection with an ecologist’s awareness of heritage and culture. Influenced by her pacifist ancestors, the poet challenges the reader to live with humanity and compassion. A powerful achievement from an important voice in Canadian poetry, Fight Fire With Spirit: Selected & New Poems is Carolyn Zonailo’s twelfth collection.

Carolyn Zonailo was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and currently lives in Montreal. She has an M.A. in literature from Simon Fraser University and has published many volumes of poetry. She is the founder of Caitlin Press and also writes reviews, articles, and essays and continues to work as an editor. A student of Jungian and archetypal psychology and a practising astrologer, she served on the councils of the League of Canadian Poets and the Writers’ Union of Canada. Previous books include The Goddess in the Garden (Ekstasis), The Taste of Giving: Selected Poems. (Caitlin Press, 1990) and Winter (Morgaine House, 1998).

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