Description: As the Den Burns portrays Florida, and those who survive it, in a series of boundless poems that reckon with fatherhood, unpredictable people, faith amid disaster, and the wildness of creation.
Review Quotes:
Forrest Rapier's As the Den Burns is haunted by its own beloved dead. It is haunted by human stories--funny, tragic, and tender--and how the words we use to tell those stories ravish and beguile. . . . As the Den Burns is a deeply intimate, exuberant history that marries the origins of language and pain and magic and admonishes both the wild, seeking speaker and the reader to "Unbury your family plainsongs from the grave deep / inside your throat."
--North Carolina Literary Review
--Annie Woodford "North Carolina Literary Review"