Comestibles - Paperback

by Kathleen Burnham (Author)

Comestibles is Burnham's first full-length poetry collection, reviewing the ties that bind in life and literature, exploring the connections that food/consumption share with language, birth, sexuality, spirituality, death, and God. The work is a confessionary minefield of what it means to be ""the other woman"" and to navigate becoming a mother in the wake of a failed relationship. Burnham weaves themes of family, illness, loss, maternity, divinity, grief, existential angst, and hope into poems that are darkly humorous and--most of all--unapologetic and direct.

Author Biography

Kathleen Burnham received her BA in English literature from Murray State University and her MFA in creative writing from Arcadia University. She currently lives and teaches in the Florida Panhandle with her partner, their four-year-old son, and two dogs. She hopes to carry the torch of academia forward and to one day own and work a farm.