Comestibles |
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| Author:
| Burnham, Kathleen |
| ISBN: | 978-1-7252-9597-1 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2021 |
| Publisher: | Wipf & Stock Publishers
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| Imprint: | Resource Publications (OR) |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.00 |
Book Description:
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Comestibles is Burnham's first full-length poetry collection, reviewing the ties that bind in life and literature, exploring the connections that food/consumption share with language, birth, sexuality, spirituality, death, and God. The work is a confessionary minefield of what it means to be "the other woman" and to navigate becoming a mother in the wake of a failed relationship.Burnham weaves themes of family, illness, loss, maternity, divinity, grief, existential angst, and hope into...
More DescriptionComestibles is Burnham's first full-length poetry collection, reviewing the ties that bind in life and literature, exploring the connections that food/consumption share with language, birth, sexuality, spirituality, death, and God. The work is a confessionary minefield of what it means to be "the other woman" and to navigate becoming a mother in the wake of a failed relationship.Burnham weaves themes of family, illness, loss, maternity, divinity, grief, existential angst, and hope into poems that are darkly humorous and--most of all--unapologetic and direct.