A?cha Martine Thiam's Burn the Witch is a book-length magic show with a host who knows her tricks. The speaker of these poems is both witch and magician, wielding language like a deck of cards and convincing us over and over again that what we think is the truth is something else entirely. This entire collection is an incantation, and we are put under this speaker's spell from the very beginning. What follows is Thiam showing off...
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