Arranged loosely in the form of a memoir, Elizabeth Burk’s poetry collection includes many poems from her chapbooks describing her experience as a New Yorker who married a Cajun as well... Læs mere
Explores the melancholy dark side as well as the natural beauties of rural life as seen through the eyes of the author as a young man growing up in Blue Earth, Minnesota.
The poems in this collection inhabit an intimate landscape of basement bathrooms and neighbourhood pools, places where the familiar becomes strange: a house burns on an empty highway; Jesus has his portrait made by a hobbyist painter in a linoleum-tiled room.
Consequences of a Moonless Night deepens its native primitivism through humour, surrealism, and soul searching lyricism. These poems take the reader on a journey where a... Læs mere