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These poems touch, caress, ponder, and probe myriad facets of the world's body, that tangible, earthy presence that sustains and enlivens us. A daughter in her fashion of all-encompassing Walt, Theresa Burns revels in the whole of the tuneful yet muddy yet encouraging yet saddening drama, the great participial thrust Walt was so keen on-living. Carefully wrought, each poem has that this-is-a-leaf-from-the-earth feel, a fullness of feeling that is explicit and-to use one of the poet's words-evergreen.
-Baron Wormser, Songs from a Voice
About the author
Theresa Burns is the author of Two Train Town, a limited edition chapbook. Her poetry, reviews, and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, Prairie Schooner, New Ohio Review, JAMA, The Cortland Review, The Night Heron Barks, Plume, SWWIM, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. A long-time book editor in New York and Boston, she is the founder of the spoken-word series Watershed Literary Events. She teaches writing in and around New York and currently lives in South Orange, New Jersey. An earlier version of Design was a finalist for both the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize from Gunpowder Press and the Homebound Publications Poetry Prize for 2021. Design is her debut full-length collection.
