Burn
Files
Document Type
Book
Description
Accessible and finely honed, as obsessed with the possibility of words as with emotion, Paul Vermeersch’s poems engage and fire and etch their way in — way down deep. Burn mixes spit and sweat and flakes of lye to scar intricate and beautiful patterns in the shapes of animals, friends, family. In Burn, the dark moments of childhood contrast with the epiphanies and horrors which attend illness and death. Sex, too, insinuates and asserts itself. And after Vermeersch’s conflagration nothing remains untouched.
ISBN
9781550224368
Publication Date
10-2000
Publisher
ECW Press
Number of Pages
90
Keywords
poems, poetry
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | Poetry
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences (FHASS)
Copyright
© ECW Press
SOURCE Citation
Vermeersch, Paul, "Burn" (2000). Books & Chapters. 8.
https://source.sheridancollege.ca/fhass_books/8
Original Citation
Vermeersch, P. (2000). Burn. ECW Press.