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by Derick Burleson (Author)
Writing from near the Arctic Circle. the marvelous Derick Burleson has wrought an erotic masterpiece. Melt is a metaphor for that which lives on in us against impending loss- sexual and precise, full of the images of the ever thawing earth. He enacts through lyric language a new way of seeing for our survival, immersed in the joy and joining of our human bodies, because "after all the phosphorescent/beings beneath your separate/skins mountains and glaciers/too beautiful to live beneath. /You could die of beauty here.