Let the Body Beg

Tara Shea Burke’s poems invite us to step into a current that carries us into ourselves and simultaneously toward the larger story. If we often feel sick-hearted in our efforts to wrestle with so much of the so much these poems are part of the cure.

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As poets, we are asked to bear witness to our lives and the world around us with an unflinching candor and a linguistic dexterity that gives others a way to see more clearly, to know more clearly. Tara Shea Burke’s poems invite us to step into a current that carries us into ourselves and simultaneously toward the larger story. If we often feel sick-hearted in our efforts to wrestle with so much of the so much these poems are part of the cure. Read this book.

—Tim Seibles, National Book Award Finalist and author of Fast Animal

Yes, let the body beg, because it only begs for what it is due: at the door of history, at the juncture of our present. In these visceral and honest poems, Tara Shea Burke touches the deep fundament of human— not just female— experience, and demands that we do the same. When we do, I guarantee that we will be changed. So then, let the body crave and eat; let it cry and howl. But also, let the body sing and praise; and love, and love, and love.

—Luisa A. Igloria, author of Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser

About the Author

Tara Shea Burke is a poet, feminist, activist, and teacher who is currently working on a collection of poetry after traveling to South Africa and Senegal immersed in service learning. She is the poetry editor for The Quotable, teaches writing in Norfolk, Virginia and yoga in the Hampton Roads area. Her poems and essays can be found in various publications and her chapbook, Let The Body Beg, is forthcoming from ELJ Publications. She lives with her girlfriend, their 3 dogs, a cat, and 5 sassy chickens in Chesapeake, Virginia and every day longs for the Blue Ridge Mountains where she spent her childhood. Find more about Tara on her Author Website here.

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