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The striking lyrics of Jennifer Burd's collection capture, in spare detail, the inflections and evanescence of daily experience.

With language that cuts to the bone, the poems in Jennifer Burd's Fringe offer portraits of those on the ragged edges of modern society. Among these poems, readers will find a homeless man's story of being mugged, an immigrant woman's quest for her GED so she can leave the stifling confines of her husband's house, the plea of a developmentally disabled man for someone to teach him to read, and prison inmates' longings for acceptance. Letting i...

Walking Home at Dusk Fireflies trail like sparks from a still-smoldering day. The crescent moon harvests clouds while corn falls quiet under evening mists. Crickets have one thing to say: this, this. The genius of Jennifer Burd's poetry lies not only in the ways her language inhabits each and every one of her internal and external landscapes, but also in the profound yet playful delight of her responses to, and conversations with, even the sma...