The VITAL SYSTEM

The Vital System is the first published book by a poet already setting off sparks among readers across the globe. In these poems, the body is always at stake vulnerable and the poet dares to try and illuminate what she has called the protective capability of violence. Burroughss compression of phrasing, subverted syntax, and ability to release a story through cinematically sequenced images allow her to expose particular tensions that are gendered and racial as well as essentially human.