Description:
Leave Me a Little Want is rich with imagery, sonnets, broken sonnets, and a distinct voice questioning throughout.
Brief description: Beverly Burch is the author of four poetry collections, including Latter Days of Eve, which won the John Ciardi Poetry Prize from BkMk Press, and Sweet to Burn, which won the the Gival Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award. She has also written two books on psychoanalytic theory and women's sexual/gender identifications: On Intimate Terms (University of Illinois Press) and Other Women (Columbia University Press). She lives in Oakland, California.
Review Quotes:
Beverly Burch winds us through the past and the natural world with so much hunger on the edge of bloom-where splendor and grief bloom together as well as separately. Leave Me a Little Want is rich with imagery, sonnets, broken sonnets, and a distinct voice questioning throughout: How do things just disappear? How will I face dying? Does the earth still want us? You will discover the answers if you listen to these poems that whisper and sing. It's all in here-confetti sunsets, sweet tranquility, lemony light, three goldfinch in the lavender-beauty is everywhere in these poems with Burch making sure we have everything we need, and yes, Reader, she is that good, she will never leave you wanting.
-Kelli Russell Agodon
Beverly Burch's beautiful book is full of deeply sensory and shape-shifting sonnets. Each line is full of the world's heft, its hustled minutes, and its urgent joys. In imperatives and questions, riddles and rumors, and unholy green born again in mud, Burch shakes us awake with each line. Every day and every heartbeat is full of beauty and meaning here, and we are lucky enough to see the seasons through Burch's thoughtful and rapturous attention.
-Traci Brimhall