Book cover for Burning by Avery Cassell
2025 Released
98 Pages
1-2 Hours
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Pony Paws PressISBN 9798988746942

Burning: poems for resistance was written between 2016 and 2025, spanning the country from California to Massachusetts. Themes include San Francisco, queer resilience and joy, political rage and more. Avery Cassell's poems have been described as lush, lyrical, and revolutionary.

The poems in Burning are an act of resistance. Let Burning inspire you to resist and rise up! Be brazen, be unbroken, and be beautiful!

Avery Cassell

Avery Cassell is a writer, cartoonist, poet, and artist living with their Maine Coon cat, Lulu, in foggy San Francisco. They are a member of the Bay Area's queer kink and literary communities. Their erotica has appeared in Best Lesbian Erotica 2015, Anything that Moves, Whipped: 20 Erotic Stories of Female Dominance, Sonic Erotica, Sex Still Spoken Here, and More Five Minute Erotica. This is Avery Cassell's first novel. Avery is currently working on their memoir about growing up in Iran, their life as a hippie, a punk dyke, a sober mother, and a transgender genderqueer granddad. They are mulling over a sequel to Behrouz Gets Lucky. "It's-a-long-story" really is their middle name.

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