| The Burn Poems Contributor(s): Strongin, Lynn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0692370943 ISBN-13: 9780692370940 Publisher: Headmistress Press OUR PRICE: $9.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Lgbt |
| Physical Information: 0.14" H x 6" W x 9" (0.22 lbs) 66 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Gay |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Strongin's language is muscular, challenging, disarming, and utterly unexpected as she journeys through childhood illness to the demands of age, circling, looking back, returning always to the body's insistent desires: The need roughens in me to have love. The way the paper has tooth. I have never read anything like it. -Rachel Rose, Poet Laureate, Vancouver, BC Lynn Strongin is a force of nature. -Chase Twichell, Winner of the 2011 Kingsley Tufts Award Fascinating work. -Alicia Ostriker, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets Lynn Strongin has written a book that reintroduces us to ourselves, to the naked spirit of ourselves, and this accomplishment is very rare. In the shadow of her words, a cold wind kicks up. Then slowly, deftly, she weaves a 25-part hymn to steadfastness and grace, to a lifetime of physical deprivation, spiritual yearning and barely held-back exultation in each sensory gift. Each poem in Burn leaves its imprint, its scald-mark, on us. -Charles Ad s Fishman, Winner of the 2012 New Millennium Award for Poetry & the 2014 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award for Poetry Strongin puts the verve back into verse. The acuity with which her older woman narrator investigates life is rare and invigorating. -Betsy Warland, Author of Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing |