Review of Aaron Burch’s “HOW TO TAKE YOURSELF APART, HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF ANEW”
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Aaron Burch’s chapbook HOW TO TAKE YOURSELF APART, HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF ANEW is, at its core, a dismantling of nostalgia and a call for self-awareness.
In this collection of concise, often surreal commands and narratives on how to cope with, and ultimately overcome, the loss of a lover, family member, and even yourself, Burch deftly blurs the line between the real and imagined, offering a lucid dream world where anything is possible and the bricks of the past act to strengthen the foundation of what’s to come.
Swirling with whimsy, meditation, sadness, and hope, HOW TO TAKE YOURSELF APART, HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF ANEW is a rare diamond hiding in plain view, waiting to be studied.
This forthcoming chapbook is published by the fine people of PANK and is slated for release Jan. 2010.
Go order it. Like, today. Right now.
I absolutely love the premise of this book, and am excited to read it–we need more titles like this in the indie/outie scene. That’s why my own How America Died is listed as “self-help.”
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