From back cover:

"The delicate eroticism of Ingres' Grande Odalisque,the deprivations of dustbowl Kansas, memories of an alcoholic father, God in the eyes of dogs, love gone wrong or gone well, these pieces--sorrows as well as ecstasies--of a Midwestern life fully lived are beautifully articulated in Kathleen Johnson's BURN. With a spare yet vibrant free verse line, an eye for the surprising yet utterly convincing image, and a voice containing undertones of both Patsy Cline and Willa Cather, BURN transcends geography to map--stunningly, movingly--the greater Kansas of the soul."
--B.H. Fairchild, author of EARLY OCCULT MEMORY SYSTEMS OF THE LOWER MIDWEST

"Kathleen Johnson knows fire for its heat and for its light. Whether as the iridescence gathered in 'dragonflies around a murky lake,' as desire-fired 'garnets glowing warm around my neck,' or as 'moonlight rolled / across the hoods of rusty pickups' parked at a rodeo, in BURN there is light for everything, and everything in its light."
--H.L. Hix, author of CHROMATIC

"Embers? Flames? This whole damn thing is on fire ...It's got it all: Passion and sadness and long, swirling, dark histories. And the redemptive power of art. It's the complete package."
--John Mark Eberhart, author of BROKEN TIME