Publisher Description

''Burch writes into the Eve myth as if Eve were a prism shining a multitude of reflections across the ages, '' writes Jennifer K. Sweeney, author of Little Spells. '''Oh Eve, every Eve, ' she laments as we meet a cast of women in therapy offices, trashed campgrounds, old shrines, along the interstate, and we meet ourselves running from our own "disastrous lots.'' Poet Maggie Smith, author of Good Bones, writes, ''In Latter Days of Eve, Beverly Burch's re-imagined Eden is original and deliciously anachronistic; Adam and Eve's 'marriage is snake-bit' and there is 'something /mechanical droning in a faraway sky.' Burch deftly leads us through biblical narratives to contemporary motherhood, to 'the desolate flourescence of mini-malls.'''

Author Biography

Beverly Burch is also the author of the poetry collections How a Mirage Works (Sixteen Rivers Press), which was a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award, and Sweet to Burn (winner of the Gival Press Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award). She is also the author of two nonfiction books on psychoanalytic theory and sexual orientation: On Intimate Terms (University of Illinois Press) and Other Women (Columbia University Press). An Atlanta native, she has lived most of her adult life in the Bay Area and has a psychotherapy practice in Berkeley, California.

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