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The Burn Poems
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ISBN10: 0692370943
ISBN13: 9780692370940
Publisher: Headmistress Press
Published: Mar 8 2015
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780692370940
Publisher: Headmistress Press
Published: Mar 8 2015
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 Adès 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
-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 Adès 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
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