Master Suffering
CM Burroughs
(Author)
Description
This book is full of the questions and uncomfortable uncertainties that grief and the body bring; it is also full of speakers who are determined, and then unsure. The female bodies of Master Suffering want power to survive; they want to control and to correct the suffering they witness and withstand. But wanting can lead to suffering, too, and make speakers like Burroughs ask: "Why / should I have wanted so much / as to threaten my being?"
Product Details
Price
$19.95
Publisher
Tupelo Press
Publish Date
January 01, 2021
Pages
47
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.0 X 0.16 inches | 0.24 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781946482389
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About the Author
CM Burroughs is Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia College Chicago; she is the author of two collections of poetry: The Vital System (Tupelo Press, 2012) and Master Suffering (Tupelo Press, 2021).
Reviews
"CM Burroughs's Master Suffering is transcendent... a book-length conjuring to counter grief's entropy. It is a pulsing utterance providing solace in the dark."
--Simone Muench
"A striking, brave, and stunning book. I love Burroughs's poems and I love Master Suffering. It's not easy to make poems like these, and they are important." --Sean Singer
"Master Suffering: a directive? Or a direct address? CM Burroughs throws us off-balance before we've opened the cover of her dynamic new collection, and continues to blow us away, moving us further and more deeply with each turn of the page."
--Evie Shockley
