{"product_id":"9780692370940","title":"The Burn Poems","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: \u003ci\u003eThe need roughens in me to have love. The way the paper has tooth.\u003c\/i\u003e I have never read anything like it.\u003cp\u003e-Rachel Rose, Poet Laureate, Vancouver, BC\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLynn Strongin is a force of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Chase Twichell, Winner of the 2011 Kingsley Tufts Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFascinating work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Alicia Ostriker, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLynn 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 \u003ci\u003eBurn\u003c\/i\u003e leaves its imprint, its scald-mark, on us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Charles Adès Fishman, Winner of the 2012 New Millennium Award for Poetry \u0026amp; the 2014 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award for Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrongin puts the verve back into verse. The acuity with which her older woman narrator investigates life is rare and invigorating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Betsy Warland, Author of \u003ci\u003eBreathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Headmistress Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47025014210800,"sku":"9780692370940","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780692370940_p0.jpg?v=1763611036","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692370940","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}