Open Burning - Poems by Christopher McCurry - Editorial description of the collection

Sep 29, 2026

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Open Burning presents Christopher McCurry’s first full-length poetry collection, tracing the emotional and psychological fallout of a young couple’s divorce while blending reality with dreams. The poems move between elliptical and surreal images and sharp flashes of the risks and rewards of navigating difficult times with grace and compassion. Through finely crafted verse, ordinary moments become invested scenes, and the work frames an apocalypse as sudden, personal, and intimate.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages98

Reading Time2 h 31 min

AccessFree to download

Open Burning

The Epoch of Nothing Beyond Her

A Bit About Rings

Love

The Man Who Was Thursday

Two Arguments

Your Personality

Silent Urban Fringe Noir

Most Mornings

The Name of Your Nail Polish Is Free Spirit

What to Expect

Christopher MCury Open Burning # Open Buming Reality and dreams mesh in ChristopherMcCurry's first fullength collection ofpoetry detailing the fallout of a youngcouple's divorce.At times elliptical and surreal,the emotional and psychological landscapeof these poems is punctuated by flashes of thereal risks and rewards of navigating difficulttimes with grace and compassion.Through themagic of these well crafted poems,we becomeinvested in the seemingly inconsequential aswell as the life-changing.An apocalypse should be suddenand personal like the snarein the cord of your spineat last yankedand accounted for.By now at least one theoryhas to be right.I'll see you,love,disintegrated.So the question is nothow will the world end,but what will we dountil it's our turnto toss our bodiesin the burn barrel. # OPEN BURNING 阳 3 82 https://archive.org/details/openburning0000mccu OPEN BURNING OPEN BURNING Poems byChristopher McCurry Copyright C2020 by Christopher McCurryAll rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Accents PublishingEditor:Katerina Stoykova Cover Illustration:“abbraccio”by Sigrid ThalerGraphics:upfromsumdirt Library of Congress Control Number:2019957669ISBN:978-1-936628-55-1First Edition accentspublishing Accents Publishing is an independent press for brilliant voices.For a catalog of current andupcoming titles,please visit us on the Web at www.accents-publishing.com The Epoch of Nothing Beyond Her /7A Bit About Rings/8Love /11 The Man Who Was Thursday /12Two Arguments/14Your Personality/15 Silent Urban Fringe Noir/17Most Mornings /19 The Name of Your Nail Polish Is Free Spirit/21What to Expect/22 Nostalgic American Period Drama With Korean Othering /23I/24Girls /25 Time Travel/26 Tarantinoesque Societal Underbelly Soap Opera/27l /29 Ⅲ /30 I Need to Catch You Up On Thirty Years of Subtext/31Where I Find Simple Math Useful/34Daughter/35 Surreal Japanese Mumble-Core /36A Common Tale of Woe /37/39 Drown Is a Verb/40 Away From the Windows /41州/42州I/43Ⅱ/44州Ⅲ /45Ⅲ /46 When You Talk to Me /47Anger/48How It Feels When Your Wife Leaves You/49 French New Wave Influenced Latin American Apocalyptic.../50Signs of the Approaching Apocalypse/51卅/52 The Road This Morning/53Open Burning /54Daughter /55 Quirky Family Dramedy/56 How It Feels When Your Wife Leaves You II/57Post Apocalyptic Romance with American Racism/60It Seems a Strange Time to Love/61 How It Feels When Your Wife Leaves You III/62Wash This Body /63 Because You Asked About the Line Between Happy and Sad.../65地1/66 Dreams in Which I'm Kissing /67 It Wouldn't Be Fun If the Plane Didn't Crash/68Most Nights/69 PG-13 Superhero Movie /70世 Ⅱ /72 Teaching My Daughter to Survive the Apocalypse /73There Won't Be Any More Sonnets But/74Bone Brush/75Acknowledgments /77About the Author /79

FAQs

What is Open Burning mainly about?

Open Burning follows the emotional and psychological fallout of a young couple’s divorce, using poems that mix reality and dreams.

What style characterizes the poems?

The collection is described as sometimes elliptical and surreal, with the emotional landscape punctuated by flashes of real risks and rewards.

How does the collection frame the idea of an apocalypse?

An apocalypse is presented as something sudden and personal—snared, yanked, and accounted for—shifting the focus to what people do until it is “our turn.”

Sep 29, 2026

Uploaded by Dipper