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Burn Lake Spiral-Bound | 2010-05-25

Carrie Fountain

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Selected for the 2009 National Poetry Series by Natasha Trethewey

Selected for the 2009 National Poetry Series by Natasha Trethewey

Set in southern New Mexico, where her family's multicultural history is deeply rooted, the poems in Carrie Fountain's first collection explore issues of progress, history, violence, sexuality, and the self. Burn Lake weaves together the experience of life in the rapidly changing American Southwest with the peculiar journey of Don Juan de Oñate, who was dispatched from Mexico City in the late sixteenth- century by Spanish royalty to settle the so-called New Mexico Province, of which little was known. A letter that was sent to Oñate by the Viceroy of New Spain, asking that should he come upon the North Sea in New Mexico, he should give a detailed report of "the configuration of the coast and the capacity of each harbor" becomes the inspiration for many of the poems in this artfully composed debut.

Publisher: Penguin Random House
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 96 pages
ISBN-10: 0143117718
Item Weight: 0.2 lbs
Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.3 x 8.4 inches
"With grace and a keen attention to the implications of history, the poems in Burn Lake grapple with what it means to be tied to a place, knowing that our own losses are not only what is taken from us, but also what we take from others."--Natasha Trethewey, 2009 National Poetry Series judge

Carrie Fountain was born and raised in Mesilla, New Mexico. Fountain's books include the National Poetry Series award winner Burn Lake and Instant Winner. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, and Tin House, among others. She received her MFA at the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin where she was a fellow. She lives with her husband, playwright and novelist Kirk Lynn, in Austin, Texas.