Master Suffering

"CM Burroughs's is ... a book-length conjuring to counter grief's entropy. It is a pulsing utterance ." --Simone Muench " . I love Burroughs's poems and I love . " --Sean Singer : a directive? Or a direct address? CM Burroughs throws us off-balance before we've opened the cover of her dynamic new collection, and --Evie Shockley The poems of pendulate between yield and command; the bodies of this book are supplicant yet seething--they want nothing more than to survive. But how does a woman survive? One's own healthy body helps, but illness is one of the masters of this book. Faith can be a salve for the inscrutable ailments of the body, but God is unreliable in these poems. The female bodies of want power; power to control and to correct the suffering they both witness and withstand.