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Christopher Bursk
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…
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Above all, Ovid at Fifteen reminds us what it means to feel the wonder of life too keenly-to want to throw yourself / off the cliff, plunge / into the…
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Herman Melville, Matthew Arnold, Sarah Orne Jewett, Dusty Rhodes, and Hoyt Wilhelm skinny-dip and pick up gondoliers and cut figure eights into the ice in Christopher Bursk’s new collection. But…
This is a collection of original poems by Christopher Bursk. The poems are inspired by Vergil’s Aeneid and deal with modern issues of love, loss, family, masculinity, and more. Many…
This collection follows the physical and emotional struggles of a young boy growing up in 1950s America as he attempts to understand himself and the world around him. Winner of…
Equal parts personal and mythical, Christopher Bursk speaks to fear and anger with candor to acknowledge their place alongside forgiveness and love in a life well lived and a life…
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Poetry grounded in both childhood and adulthood, for anyone who remembers being a kid and longing for something you can’t put a name to. Not afraid to be naked and…
Poetry by Christopher Bursk, a recipient of NEA, Guggenheim, and Pew Fellowships and author of eleven books, including The Infatuations and Infidelities of Pronoun, Cell Count, and The Improbable Swervings…
