In her debut full-length poetry collection, Burn IT DOWN, Katie Byrum sparks a poetic inferno out of a grim year.
With "a feeling of fa.
Their speaker rages and laments, cracks jokes, flips the bird, and begs the walls to come down, only to learn the hard way: be careful what you wish for.
The book is a love letter to bad luck and an attempt to make peace with gravity, "sometimes kind/ in keeping us here/ other times letting us fall." These vivid and radiant poems look sorrow straight in the eye.
In her debut full-length poetry collection, Burn IT DOWN, Katie Byrum sparks a poetic inferno out of a grim year