"In the title poem, 'Burn-Out, ' Stephen Honig writes that he will 'replace the batteries/in my tracking telescope, /and find some planets and transit some stars;' this wide-ranging collection is the result of his resolution. The energy of discovery propels this work as the poet's scope is trained on the self, love, pain, death, and 'everything else.' Describing poetry as an 'enterprise with no maps or guides, ' Honig-curious, vulnerable, intrepid-takes us on a journey rich with recognition and disclosure."-Mary Buchinger, author of Virology and / klaudz /
"The poems in Stephen Honig's Burn-Out, like the document left behind by an eighteenth-century yeoman and eventually purchased by the poet, are 'wills to ordain the future.' These poems catalogue details of reality with a lawyer's objectivity, examining death, love, and everything in between, especially the self's solitude and unique originality. Unafraid, with curiosity, sureness, and a kind of faith, the voice of this collection addresses the reader directly, showing us the strangeness of human experience."-Hillary Sallick, author of Asking the Form