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"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."

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Burnham's book parallels one of the 'chocolate concoctions' she mentions inside: a cake dense with philosophical, ethical, and personal exploration made of bittersweet chocolate--bitter at the sexual complexities of an affair, or 'situationship, ' and sweet with the love of new life that comes from it, a 'chatter-boxing' child 'flinging Cheerios.' This poet's voice is both assertive and vulnerable, unflinching in its treatment of love and the body. Burnham stuns in this debut collection. --Genevieve Betts, author of An Unwalled City Burnham delves as deeply into our American literary heritage as she does into the ephemera of modern communication, examining how both can fall short in illuminating our loves, losses, and obsessions. In a voice that is sardonic, punchy, and full-throated, Burnham takes on everything from consumerism, instant messaging, bad romances, and the joys and pitfalls of motherhood. The reader will see herself and flinch at the precision with which Burnham gets under the skin. --Mary Sutton, poetry editor at West Trade Review

Burnham's book parallels one of the 'chocolate concoctions' she mentions inside: a cake dense with philosophical, ethical, and personal exploration made of bittersweet chocolate--bitter at the sexual complexities of an affair, or 'situationship, ' and sweet with the love of new life that comes from it, a 'chatter-boxing' child 'flinging Cheerios.' This poet's voice is both assertive and vulnerable, unflinching in its treatment of love and the body. Burnham stuns in this debut collection. --Genevieve Betts, author of An Unwalled City Burnham delves as deeply into our American literary heritage as she does into the ephemera of modern communication, examining how both can fall short in illuminating our loves, losses, and obsessions. In a voice that is sardonic, punchy, and full-throated, Burnham takes on everything from consumerism, instant messaging, bad romances, and the joys and pitfalls of motherhood. The reader will see herself and flinch at the precision with which Burnham gets under the skin. --Mary Sutton, poetry editor at West Trade Review

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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.

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