Comestibles

Download or read book Comestibles written by Kathleen Burnham and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comestibles is Burnham’s first full-length poetry collection, reviewing the ties that bind in life and literature, exploring the connections that food/consumption share with language, birth, sexuality, spirituality, death, and God. The work is a confessionary minefield of what it means to be “the other woman” and to navigate becoming a mother in the wake of a failed relationship. Burnham weaves themes of family, illness, loss, maternity, divinity, grief, existential angst, and hope into poems that are darkly humorous and—most of all—unapologetic and direct.