{"product_id":"the-burn-poems-lynn-strongin-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.\u003cbr\u003e-Rachel Rose, Poet Laureate, Vancouver, BC \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLynn Strongin is a force of nature.\u003cbr\u003e-Chase Twichell, Winner of the 2011 Kingsley Tufts Award \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFascinating work.\u003cbr\u003e-Alicia Ostriker, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e-Charles Adès Fishman, Winner of the 2012 New Millennium Award for Poetry \u0026amp; the 2014 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award for Poetry \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStrongin puts the verve back into verse. The acuity with which her older woman narrator investigates life is rare and invigorating.\u003cbr\u003e-Betsy Warland, Author of \u003ci\u003eBreathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lynn Strongin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0692370943\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692370940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Headmistress Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/08\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.14d","brand":"Lynn Strongin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48441236291839,"sku":"9780692370940","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e654cc63-bbbe-4bfb-98e9-c8bf983d4529.jpg?v=1777189605","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-burn-poems-lynn-strongin-9780692370940","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}