A compilation covering over 25 years, a "Best of..." collection of Burns' most personal and unsettling verse. Apocalyptic, austere, elegant, terrifying.
Includes an author's Afterword--not available as an e-book.
Read full overview »
A compilation covering over 25 years, a "Best of..." collection of Burns' most personal and unsettling verse. Apocalyptic, austere, elegant, terrifying.
Includes an author's Afterword--not available as an e-book.
The poems in this collection unsettle me; they're so personal and revealing. The obsessions and fears of someone whose life has encompassed the 20th century (worst period of carnage in human history) and now faces the uncertainties of a new century, technology speeding us toward a collision with the onrushing future...