Christopher Bursk: Selected Poems - Christopher Bursk - Books - FutureCycle Press - 9781938853517 - March 28, 2014
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Christopher Bursk: Selected Poems

Christopher Bursk

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Christopher Bursk: Selected Poems

Of Christopher Bursk?s poetry, Joel Brouwer in The New York Times Book Review writes, ?If you?re looking for skeptical poststructuralist experiments with language?s unstable elements, look elsewhere. Bursk has bottomless faith in language and its capacities to enlighten and delight.? Bursk?s Selected Poems reveal their author?s trust in those odd little bits of breath we call vowels and consonants to engage the world. Drawing on his experience as a father and grandfather, teacher and prison counselor, pacifist and protestor, Bursk sets great store in the potential of parts of speech to challenge and heal, puzzle and provoke. For him words are ?places of comfort, places of justice,? whether they are exploring the painful confusions of childhood and sexuality; witnessing to the violations of spirit and body in the Congo or on the cellblock; examining the challenges of classroom, picket line, nursery or hospital ward; confronting the difficulties of living in the past and in the here and now. Bursk in his work in the corrections system helped those incarcerated to trust that something good comes of facing, honestly and bravely, both one?s limits and one?s possibilities. In his poetry he asks the same of himself. In both cases this honesty and courage is made possible by a faith that words, though they may test us, will not let us down.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released March 28, 2014
ISBN13 9781938853517
Publishers FutureCycle Press
Pages 146
Dimensions 150 × 8 × 225 mm   ·   204 g
Language English  

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