Burn After Reading
poems
by Jessica Ciencin Henriquez
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Pub Date 25 Feb 2025 | Archive Date 15 Apr 2025
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Description
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Burn After Reading by Jessica Ciencin Henriquez is a deeply evocative and transformative poetry collection that navigates the raw terrain of life, grief, healing, and self-discovery. Through the lens of relationship, ancestry, motherhood, and love, Jessica braids together emotions that will resonate with readers across all walks of life.
With a voice that is both tender and fierce, Jessica blends spiritual wisdom with personal narrative, offering solace and strength in moments of vulnerability. Drawing on her Colombian heritage and the lessons learned throughout her life, her work is meditative and grounded, exploring the complexities of human relationships, nature’s cycles, and the everyday moments that shape us.
In Burn After Reading, Jessica plays with form, using prose poetry and erasure poetry to reveal layers of meaning, allowing readers to discover hidden emotions and insights beneath the surface. Structured in five sections—Ignite, Illuminate, Burn, Embers, and Ashes—each phase reflects the cyclical nature of creation and destruction.
This debut collection is a profound exploration of what it means to heal, to rise from the ashes of one’s former self, and to find beauty in both the destruction and the rebirth.
Marketing Plan
Burn After Reading – An International Poetry Debut
Jessica Ciencin Henriquez's debut poetry collection, Burn After Reading, will be simultaneously released in English, Spanish, and French, making it accessible to a wide, diverse readership across cultures.
Rooted in deeply personal reflections on identity, relationships, motherhood, and self-reclamation, Henríquez’s poetry captures themes that transcend borders and resonate deeply with the human experience. Burn After Reading offers a universal exploration of transformation and self-discovery.
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Available for order through Ingram, Baker & Taylor, and also through direct distribution from Rev Publishing.
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Publisher: Rev Publishing
Publication Date: February 25, 2025
English ISBN: 979-8-9915794-90
Spanish ISBN: 979-8-9915794-4-5
French ISBN: 979-8-9915794-7-6
Price: $27.99 USD €24.99 EUR $38.99 CAD
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9798991579490 |
| PRICE | 27.99 |
| PAGES | 152 |
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Featured Reviews
Emily G, Media/Journalist
I devoured this book in a weekend and can’t wait to dive back in. Burn After Reading is a collection that reached deep into my soul, stirring up everything that had gone stagnant. Jessica Ciencin Henriquez effortlessly crafts moments of intimacy without making the reader feel like they've been involved in a drive-by oversharing. Instead, she creates an emotional landscape that left me both gutted and profoundly seen.
The way Henriquez captures both the intensity of starting life with excitement and wonder, as well as the quiet resignation of loss, failure, and death, feels deeply visceral. This collection pulls at every emotion and invites you to sit with them.
Her use of erasure poetry reveals layers of meaning hidden in the unsaid. I’ve never seen erasure done with such elegance—it’s seamless, though I imagine so much careful consideration went into each 'burnt' poem.
Henriquez’s work feels like a deep meditation. It’s as if she’s asking you to sit with her through both her life, her grief and her healing. Her straightforward writing reminds me of poets like Sharon Olds, but her fearless bluntness—especially in the poem Before—creates a rare bond between reader and writer that reminds me of the comfort of Mary Oliver.
This collection isn’t just a read—it’s an experience. Henriquez keeps you tethered to her with every page. Many of these poems will stay with me for a long time.
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