{"product_id":"burn-lyrics-benjamin-landry-9781941550953","title":"Burn Lyrics","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAll that remain to us of Sappho's poems are fragments, some only a handful of words. \u003ci\u003eBurn Lyrics\u003c\/i\u003e incorporates these extant fragments into fully-fleshed poems in entirely contemporary voices, underscoring the flexibility of language and the ways we make compelling meanings out of our limited experiences of the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eBurn Lyrics\u003c\/i\u003e is an entirely original accomplishment. Benjamin Landry has reached into the past and its erasures, and brought into our time and place something new and strange. This collection transforms poetry into lived experience-full of atmosphere and physicality and mysterious specificity and music. Landry is a poet of uncommon gifts, one who has uncovered or discovered an entirely unexpected path for this art form. \u003ci\u003eBurn Lyrics\u003c\/i\u003e began as a remarkable urge, and it is now a spellbinding and transformative reading experience for the rest of us.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLaura Kasischke\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eSpace, in Chains\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Infinitesimals\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Benjamin Landry crafts an eco-lyric voice that celebrates everyday life yet remains \"realistic about the future of the coastline.\" Throughout \u003ci\u003eBurn Lyrics\u003c\/i\u003e, the speaker walks barefoot amongst family and strangers, wolves and goats, hummingbirds and pigeons, greenswards and dandelions, storms and fires. At the end of this journey, the old lyric self sheds its skin and the book becomes a new self to call and return the body home.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCraig Santos Perez\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003efrom unincorporated territory\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e You might think that a poem housing a fragment of sacred text-Sappho's incandescent shards-would be a thing relatively inert in itself: at best a reliquary, at worst a golem. But Benjamin Landry splendidly shatters such preconceptions in this brilliant collection. The landscapes are so captivating, the perspectives so enticing, the emotional currents so swift and strong that you notice, only in passing, that a text you thought long dead has quickened, miraculously, into breathing, exuberant life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMonica Youn\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eIgnatz\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlackacre\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Benjamin Landry's \u003ci\u003eBurn Lyrics\u003c\/i\u003e both fleshes out the mystery of and satisfies the desires awakened by Sappho's fragments. We are sated at every turn. He is a master not only of the line but also of the heart. Landry offers a new lens through which to view the world; \"it's the sort of thing that colors your personal heaven,\" and, as a reader, I'm left to wonder if this is possible, can the poem curate so much emotion in a world filled with so many distractions, but then I turn another page and realize, \"Sometimes, it happens this way.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA. Van Jordan\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cineaste\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eM-A-C-N-O-L-I-A\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Landry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1941550959\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781941550953\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Spuyten Duyvil Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/27\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.24d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Benjamin Landry","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983907619071,"sku":"9781941550953","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8999157b-d996-4b99-84cf-5bc4a122fcf2.jpg?v=1683269406","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/burn-lyrics-benjamin-landry-9781941550953","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}