Burn-Out
Stephen M. Honig
(Author)
Description
Burn-Out is an eclectic, intelligent poetry collection that explores the elements of modern life, relationships between men and women often gone awry, the pains of living in our curious and frightening times, the overlay of death, and concludes with an ode to Kierkegaard and the deconstruction of a will made by an illiterate yeoman in 1745 that serves as a counterpoint to the complexity and lack of clarity in today's world.Burn-Out is Steve Honig's sixth book, fifth of poetry. All poems were written during the two years ending August, 2022. Poets need "prompts." Steve describes his prompts for the collection: "plague, war, death of people, death of a dying world, loss of liberty, loss of hope." Such a world shakes loose fear, memory-and poetry.
Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
Stephen M. Honig
Publish Date
December 01, 2022
Pages
192
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.0 X 0.41 inches | 0.58 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9798218107277
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About the Author
Stephen M. Honig is a practicing corporate attorney in Boston, Massachusetts. Author of five prior works of poetry, a collection of short stories and an adventure novel, he is a director of the New England Poetry Club, hosts poetry readings on behalf of the Club, is himself a reader of his poetry in various venues, and has often been published in Ibbetson Street (the poetry magazine of Ibbetson Press based in Somerville, Massachusetts). He has published five collections of poetry: "Messing Around with Words", "Rail Head", "Obligatory COVID Chapbook", "Laertes in America - Collected Poetry 2018-2020", and "Burn-Out". Also published are a collection of short stories: "Noir Ain't the Half of It", and a novel: "The Event". A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, Mr. Honig lives with his wife, Laura Unflat, in Newton, Massachusetts. Among his four children and two grandchildren, only one shows a poetic avocation, although all six have poetic dispositions.
Reviews
"In the title poem, 'Burn-Out, ' Stephen Honig writes that he will 'replace the batteries/in my tracking telescope, /and find some planets and transit some stars;' this wide-ranging collection is the result of his resolution. The energy of discovery propels this work as the poet's scope is trained on the self, love, pain, death, and 'everything else.' Describing poetry as an 'enterprise with no maps or guides, ' Honig-curious, vulnerable, intrepid-takes us on a journey rich with recognition and disclosure."-Mary Buchinger, author of Virology and / klaudz /
"The poems in Stephen Honig's Burn-Out, like the document left behind by an eighteenth-century yeoman and eventually purchased by the poet, are 'wills to ordain the future.' These poems catalogue details of reality with a lawyer's objectivity, examining death, love, and everything in between, especially the self's solitude and unique originality. Unafraid, with curiosity, sureness, and a kind of faith, the voice of this collection addresses the reader directly, showing us the strangeness of human experience."-Hillary Sallick, author of Asking the Form
"The poems in Stephen Honig's Burn-Out, like the document left behind by an eighteenth-century yeoman and eventually purchased by the poet, are 'wills to ordain the future.' These poems catalogue details of reality with a lawyer's objectivity, examining death, love, and everything in between, especially the self's solitude and unique originality. Unafraid, with curiosity, sureness, and a kind of faith, the voice of this collection addresses the reader directly, showing us the strangeness of human experience."-Hillary Sallick, author of Asking the Form
