The poem, that is to say, this body which is at one with language, which breathes, swallows, revels in its house of words. "There is no doubt, CM Burroughs is one of those few beings who are hewn out of the living body of Poetry. Here is terrible resilience and dangerous vitality."-Douglas Kearney Here is vivid grief, livid vulnerability and bristling sensuality. The narrator of these poems seems to come apart before my eyes yet she never disintegrates-she teems. "With gorgeous horror, Burroughs's debut thrusts the body forward as an intelligence, a syntax, a theater.
In these poems, the body is always at stake-vulnerable-and the poet dares to try and illuminate what she has called "the protective capability of violence." Burroughs's compression of phrasing, subverted syntax, and ability to release a story through cinematically sequenced images allow her to expose particular tensions that are gendered and racial as well as essentially human. THE VITAL SYSTEM is the first published book by a poet already setting off sparks among readers across the globe.
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