Books
What You Don’t Know
“Beautifully written, haunting novel by poet Beverly Burch. Atmospheric tale of a love that seeps through the life/death barrier. Strongly recommend!”
—Joan Steinau Lester, PEN award-winning author of Loving Before Loving: A Marriage in Black and White
“What You Don’t Know is an engrossing story of female friendship and its power to transform. I fell in love with Chloe and Rosie and cheered—and worried—for them as they navigated work, marriage, children, and the growing feelings they had for one another. This is a tender story you won’t forget.”
—Frances Dinkelspiel, award winning author of NYT bestselling Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California
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Leave Me a Little Want
“I love this book and its urgent attention to language and form in the “treacherous province” of our current times. Burch never turns away from the coexistence of the beautiful and the bloody, the tedious and the risky, and so I not only trust her, but feel jolted awake.”
-Julia Levine, Ordinary Psalms
PUBLICATION DATE: 2022
Latter Days of Eve
“Written at the edge of 'blossoming disaster' and uncertain survival, the ancient and contemporary moment are exquisitely braided, and through this seer’s eye, this most skillful poet’s hand, she helps us remember how 'always, the world’s egg breaks open.' A stunning work."
—Jennifer K. Sweeney, Little Spells
PUBLICATION DATE: 2019
How a Mirage Works
“Over and over, the world is rendered in the most exacting of visual details. But it isn’t just the world that is scrutinized. Even individual words, like rejection, must withstand this poet’s particular gaze : … This is a fine and well-wrought collection of poems that reward with each and every reading.”
—C. Dale Young, author of Torn
PUBLICATION DATE: 2014
Sweet to Burn
Winner of the 2003 Gival Press Poetry Award
Winner of the 2004 Lambda Literary Award (Lammy) for Lesbian Poetry
"Novelistic in scope, but packing the emotional intensity of lyric poetry."
—Eloise Klein Healy, author of Passing
PUBLICATION DATE: 2004
