Be Feared by Jane Burn Merlina Acevedo The Ministry of Flowers is

The Ministry of Flowers is in many ways a book for our times

illness and loss into rites of passage

draws a bull’s-eye on humanity’s vulnerable flesh and corrupted world

kaleidoscopic imagination on the intricate and often fraught nature of childhood and family

Be Feared by Jane Burn Merlina Acevedo The Ministry of Flowers isJane Burns new poetry collection Be Feared is a captivating reclamation of self, sisterhood, and love, encountering everything from Snow White to monsters, plagues and infernos. Acknowledging fear, this book embraces discovery, a process of translation and transformation, of finding a voice radiant with both curses and psalms. Rebellious, bloody, and encroached upon by violence, Burns poetry examines survival, abuse and healing. Intensely imaginative,