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Uncommonplace.

Publication: Lambda Book Report
Publication Date: 01-NOV-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Uncommonplace.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Sweet to Burn

By Beverly Burch

Gival Press

ISBN 1-928589-23-5

PB, $15.00, 91 pp.

The subject of this story is desire," claims Beverly Burch on the first page of Sweet to Burn, although to label a collection of poems a "story" is an interesting way to begin. Sure enough, the next page introduces us to Alice and Meg, whose complicated and dynamic desires we follow for the remainder of the book. Sweet to Burn, however, is not a novel in verse--it's more along the lines of Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah, and Burch gives a strong nod in that direction when she quotes Dove in the epigraph. Whereas Thomas and Beulah is divided...

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