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Highlights
- These poems touch, caress, ponder, and probe myriad facets of the world's body, that tangible, earthy presence that sustains and enlivens us.
- Author(s): Theresa Burns
- 102 Pages
- Poetry, General
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About the Book
"A collection of lyric poems, a debut collection"--Book Synopsis
These poems touch, caress, ponder, and probe myriad facets of the world's body, that tangible, earthy presence that sustains and enlivens us. A daughter in her fashion of all-encompassing Walt, Theresa Burns revels in the whole of the tuneful yet muddy yet encouraging yet saddening drama, the great participial thrust Walt was so keen on-living. Carefully wrought, each poem has that this-is-a-leaf-from-the-earth feel, a fullness of feeling that is explicit and-to use one of the poet's words-evergreen.
-Baron Wormser, Songs from a Voice
Review Quotes
In Design Theresa Burns repeatedly proves her eye more than "just a muscle that records what it's seeing" as she constructs image after image in poems often informed by memory as well as by the richness of the natural world and all that is subject to erosion and decay, to make sense of the "sweet / but bitter" human experience, of seasons of plenty and seasons of lack. What the poet has managed here is a lively ode to the ordinary, to that which we should love and appreciate because it doesn't last. Finely crafted, richly textured, this is an exciting debut.
-Nathan McClain, Previously Owned
The poems in Design are uncommonly moving, steady, and unafraid to embrace the often-fleeting beauty of the world, even amidst the ugly, or just the everyday. To read Design is to celebrate being, all of ours, and to remember-in our chaotic hour-the grace that words grant us all. Theresa Burns has given us this gift of her perception, so we may further appreciate our own.
-Lynn Melnick, Refusenik