"Disturbance, are you my valentine?" asks Beatrix Gates at the outset of The Burning Key, her collected poems representing fifty years of provocative and prodigious work. In sui generis waves of imagistic associations, Gates unpacks this core question through surrealism and fantastical portraitures, prosodic comic tragedies, or lyrical poems of love and loss. Above all, hope wafts. Even in states of fragility, Gates in her omniscient voice takes "the high road still open inside her tulip skull" despite "her shoulders rained out and eroded / down to her glass stem." Gates's The Burning Key delivers not a retrospective body of work, but a collection that is at once ominous and formidable. Each poem is as defiant of time as it is of "valentine's" ferment-key to desire."-Rosa Lane.

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Title: The Burning Key New Selected Poems
Author: Beatrix Gates
Publisher: Thera Books
Publication year: 2023
Condition: Very Good
Binding: Paperback
Language: English

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