Sarah Burgoyne — Poetry Collection: Because the Sun

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Coach House Books, paperback

Publication Date: May 18, 2021

Publisher Marketing: Because the Sun is obsessed with the blinding sun in both L’étranger and Thelma and Louise, and the shootings that happen under it. Burgoyne considers the gendered violence of Meursault’s murder of a man on the beach and Louise pulling the trigger on Thelma’s assailant as she thinks about the sun, that “unremarkable star” that is a material symbol of pain, an affective backlog we’re slung under, pushing through desert after desert.

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