Burning of the Three Fires

By Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

Book Overview

Burning of the Three Fires shows Jeanne Marie Beaumont using her characteristic variety of techniques: dramatic monologues, lists, prose poems, nonce forms, object poems, and ekphrasis, to which she has added an exploration of biography, elegy, and rites. Among its layered themes, this book takes a multifaceted look at womanhood: there are dolls, historic and modern girlhoods, mythic re-tellings of characters from Goldilocks to the Bride of Frankenstein, emotionally charged domestic trinkets, and even a conversation with Sylvia Plath conducted via an 8-Ball.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934414409
• ISBN13: 9781934414408
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: BOA Editions
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 8.9"