burn + bind - Paperback

by Jaclyn Gene (Author)

burn + bind traces a three-act journey through desire, destruction, and reclamation. In poems both searing and tender, the speaker moves from first spark to consuming fire, through labyrinths of violence, myth, and memory, to the slow work of mending what remains. With imagery that tastes of ash and smoke, love and blood, this collection confronts the ways we are undone by others-and the ways we stitch ourselves back together. At once brutal and beautiful, burn + bind is a testament to survival, transformation, and the heat that shapes us.