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ISBN: PB: 9780887486517

University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press

November 2019

64 pp.

21.5x13.9 cm

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Brightword

Though none of us can predict our own futures, there are distinctive factors – individual and collective – that may forcibly turn our attention toward the uncertain.  In the poems in Brightword the speaker, a mother, contemplates the microcosm and macrocosm of dissection. Physically, her son is at constant risk of a life-threatening cardiac event. Environmentally, her son is obsessed with nature and the threat of eco-catastrophes. Through lyric exchange, images become the principal of repose.

About the Author

Kimberly Burwick is the author of five poetry collections, including "Custody of the Eyes", also from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her poems have been published in many literary journals and magazines, among them Bellevue Literary Review, Crazyhorse, Fence, the Mississippi Review, North American Review, and Terrain. Burwick resides in Idaho and is clinical assistant professor of creative writing at Washington State University.