The Burning Key: New & Selected Poems (1973-2023) - Softcover

Gates, Beatrix

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798986309835

Publisher: Thera Books, 2023

Synopsis

The Burning Key is a testament to the communities and legacies that sustain intimate relationships and bridge intergenerational social movements. A student and teacher of history, Gates's literary legacy lies in her unflinching awareness that brings wounds to surface and violence to account, commemorating necessary truths with clear-eyed accuracy as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Featuring new work, poetry from limited editions, and selections from previously published books selected by the author, The Burning Key is a meditation on hope as resistance. 

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About the Author

Beatrix Gates has published six poetry collections, including Dos and Lambda Poetry Award Finalist, In the Open. She has been a fellow at MacDowell, Millay Arts, Monson Arts, the Huntington Library, Ucross, and VCCA, and she received a Maine Arts Commission Poetry Award. Her hybrid work appears in Jane Cooper: A Radiance of Attention. She shared NEA support, as librettist, for The Singing Bridge with composer Anna Dembska, and a Witter Bynner Translation Award with Electa Arenal for Jesús Aguado's The Poems of Vikram Babu. In 2021, "Close Apart: Beatrix Gates, poetry, & Tim Seabrook, etchings," spanning poems from 1973 to 2021, opened Word. Blue Hill Literary Arts Festival at the Cynthia Winings Gallery, and a documentary by Matt Shaw was commissioned on the collaboration with Anahata Foundation support. Gates founded Granite Press (1976-1989) in Penobscot, Maine, as a Book Artist, job printer and feminist small press publisher. She published Grace Paley's Leaning Forward, Joan Larkin's A Long Sound, the bilingual IXOK AMAR.GO, Central American Women Poets for Peace and letterpress editions by Rosa Lane and Jean Valentine. She has taught writing for 25 years in graduate and undergraduate programs, including City College of New York, Colby College, MFA programs at Goddard and NYU, and in many rural and urban community settings. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and BA from Antioch College. She grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has had significant time in NYC and San Francisco. She lives in Maine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thera Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798986309835
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300