Description
The world is burning with fire and hatred, but at the same time it is filled with love and incredible beauty. The poems in Burn tango with why the world is so beautiful and terrible at the same time. Hamby asserts that everything is a mess--how do we walk through it laughing and crying? Sometimes you look back and think, "How was I so lucky? I could have died a thousand times, but I didn't. But I will."
Author: Barbara Hamby
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 10/07/2025
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 7.20w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780822967521
ISBN10: 0822967529
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | General
Author: Barbara Hamby
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 10/07/2025
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 7.20w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780822967521
ISBN10: 0822967529
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | General
About the Author
Barbara Hamby is the author of Holoholo, Bird Odyssey, and On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems. Burn is her eighth book of poems. In 2010 her book of stories about Hawai'i, Lester Higata's 20th Century, won the Iowa/John Simmons Prize. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, and many other magazines. She teaches at Florida State University, where she is distinguished university scholar, and lives in Tallahassee, Florida.