Be Feared by Jane Burn Merlina Acevedo illness and loss into rites

illness and loss into rites of passage

kaleidoscopic imagination on the intricate and often fraught nature of childhood and family

These poems are transformative in every sense of the word – exploring how language contains and changes grief and how the natural world can help us survive terrible loss

ran the Alpha Boys School for wayward boys

The follow up to I Am The Seed that Grew the Tree

Be Feared by Jane Burn Merlina Acevedo illness and loss into ritesJane Burns new poetry collection Be Feared is a captivating reclamation of self, sisterhood, and love, encountering everything from Snow White to monsters, plagues and infernos. Acknowledging fear, this book embraces discovery, a process of translation and transformation, of finding a voice radiant with both curses and psalms. Rebellious, bloody, and encroached upon by violence, Burns poetry examines survival, abuse and healing. Intensely imaginative,