Tara Shea Burke

Animal Like Any Other Tara Shea Burke

Animal Like Any Other is about love and loss, queer longing, and a rural Virginia upbringing that housed strange, yet loving familial relationships. These poems cross boundaries between prose and poetry, the narrative and lyric, truth and story, and sing a hungry body back to life after heartbreak. Awards include runner-up in Split This Rock's Poems of Provocation and Witness and publication in Reading Queer: Poetry in a Time of Chaos, an anthology from Anhinga Press.