Kimberly Burwick: Brightword Author

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Carnegie Mellon, paperback

Publication Date: November 23, 2019

Publisher Marketing: Though none of us can predict our own futures, there are distinctive factors–individual and collective–that may forcibly turn our attention toward the uncertain. In the poems in Brightword the speaker, a mother, contemplates the microcosm and macrocosm of dissection. Physically, her son is at constant risk of a life-threatening cardiac event. Environmentally, her son is obsessed with nature and the threat of eco-catastrophes. Through lyric exchange, images become the principal of repose.

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