The Vital System: Poems

By C.M. Burroughs

Book Overview

The Vital System is the first published book by a poet already setting off sparks among readers across the globe. In these poems, the body is always at stake -- vulnerable -- and the poet dares to try and illuminate what she has called "the protective capability of violence." Burroughs's compression of phrasing, subverted syntax, and ability to release a story through cinematically sequenced images allow her to expose particular tensions that are gendered and racial as well as essentially human.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936797151
• ISBN13: 9781936797158
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.3" x 9.0"