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Please Bury Me in This

Allison Benis White

The speaker in Please Bury Me in This grieves the death of her father and the loss of several women to suicide while contemplating her own death and the nature of language as a means of human connection that transcends our temporal lives. This book is also concerned with the intergenerational trauma of the children of Holocaust survivors.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Four Way Books
  • Publish Date: Mar 7th, 2017
  • Pages: 72
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.90in - 6.00in - 0.30in - 0.30lb
  • EAN: 9781935536833
  • Categories: American - GeneralSubjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss

About the Author

ALLISON BENIS WHITE is the author of Small Porcelain Head, selected by Claudia Rankine for the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry. Her first book, Self-Portrait with Crayon, received the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Book Prize. Allison is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside.

Praise for this book

...The entire collection dwells on the variation of absence in White's life, and the language she uses is just as lyrical, moving, and original as in her earlier work. Like White, we survive, and after reading her poems, the reader is left pondering what it means to be a survivor, to live, to be alive, and in order to do so, one feels compelled to read White's poems over and over again.--Sarah Appleton "The Los Angeles Review" (1/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)