Corrective Lenses for Reading Ethno-botan-ese and Other Incendiary Language

by Burnham, Kathleen

• ISBN13: 9798992398885
• ISBN10: 8992398883
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-11-04
• Publisher: Green Writers Press
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Summary

Corrective Lenses: for Reading Ethno-botan-ese and Other Incendiary Language is Burnham’ s attempt to call bullshit on the gaslighting that is both self-imposed and put upon not just women but everyone and everything that is historically and currently denied voice and agency— mostly that put upon the traditional other with a capital O. Somewhere between geek-ing out over cult favorite/obscure films— and their enigmatic directors— and using Freudian analytics to self-diagnose an unhealthy relationship with male-dominated religion/culture, Burnham begs for poets to put legs on their penned prayers, for art to become hardware for witchcraft, the works of faith that is alive, irrespective of religion or creed.

Author Biography

Kathleen Burnham currently lives on Sicangu Lakota tribal land in Mission, South Dakota. She is grateful to be teaching English and foundational studies for Sinte Gleska Univesrity. She received her MFA in creative writing from Arcadia University and is currently pursuing doctoral studies in Indigenous foodways, ecology, and activism. Kate, her partner, Pat, and their son, Bob, share their home with Claude-Jackson, Blu¨ , Erland, Ted, Tootles, and Mergatroid— their dog and five cats.