The Clara Ann Burns Story

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Pub Date Nov 01 2011 | Archive Date Oct 15 2012

Description

The Clara Ann Burns Story is an expression of child abuse and neglect witnessed through a patchwork of short prose reflections, poems, one minute plays, scholarly studies, and photographs. Daring in both content and structure, The Clara Ann Burns Story explores multiple genres and is courageously self-reflective.

The Clara Ann Burns Story is an expression of child abuse and neglect witnessed through a patchwork of short prose reflections, poems, one minute plays, scholarly studies, and photographs. Daring in...


Advance Praise

Heidi Ann Smith's unflinching novel viscerally tracks the ways trauma can break our contract with language, how it can hybridize hearts and mouths, and how our tongues might, in the end, fork to speak it all: revelatory, plural, here. The Clara Ann Burns Story, through text and image, offers a map by which to read the geographic/familial underpinnings of our emotional and physical bodies so that we might articulate our own hermeneutic of triumph. --Selah Saterstrom, author of The Meat and Spirit Plan

The Clara Ann Burns Story sends an inspirational message of strength of the human spirit. A person has the ability to leave their dark past and look forward to a better tomorrow. --Pacific Book Review

Smith's creative approach to this story of abuse achieves the aim of sharing an abused little girl s story, with all of the horror and terror that entails, in a format that also offers beauty. --IP Book Reviewers

Heidi Ann Smith's unflinching novel viscerally tracks the ways trauma can break our contract with language, how it can hybridize hearts and mouths, and how our tongues might, in the end, fork to...


Available Editions

EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9780982664674
PRICE $15.00 (USD)
PAGES 107