Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we continue our conversation with poet Sara Henning on her most recent collection, Burn, from SIU Press.
Burn magnifies the way time leaves us both the victim and the victor of our realities. The blaze of the speaker’s late-mother’s Tiffany lamps sends her back to childhood, where she unearths mica from the schoolyard dirt. The devastation of an ecological crisis, the annihilating act of rape, and the unsolved disappearance of a caretaker all level the speaker’s world and upend her place in it, forcing her to reconstitute reality from what remains.
We wrap up our interview this week and hear a few selections from this wonderful book of poems.
