‘I have seen myself through,’ in another. The voice in these poems echoes with wrenching questions (‘Ready to suffer?’ ‘Do you want to look inside?’), although its assertions speak just as resonantly: ‘I will suffer desire,’ she writes in one poem. “ Master Suffering: a directive? Or a direct address? CM Burroughs throws us off-balance before we’ve opened the cover of her dynamic new collection, and continues to blow us away, moving us further and more deeply with each turn of the page. Halfway in, CM Burroughs writes, ‘I have seen myself through.’ There’s so much here.”
And note that liver, site of the organ failure addressed here, is also the word for one who lives. The book goes deeply into the territories-death and family and the various ways bodies fail us and also ‘radiant pain opening/ as pure sound.’ And note, dear reader, the gestures toward order, these in the epistolary riffs (complete with trigger warnings) and in the repeated insistence on cleaning house. “Dear reader, I would stop us at the title of this harrowing and beautifully ranging book, and have us note how that title- Master Suffering-sits, on one hand, as imperative and, on another, as a nod to old suffering’s power over all of us. It is a pulsing utterance providing solace in the dark.” The keening power of Burroughs’ poems is felt repeatedly, especially in the stripped down interrogative, ‘Why would you put / so much sadness in one person?’ Ultimately, Master Suffering serves as a concentrated ‘balancing song’-a book-length conjuring to counter grief’s entropy. Often employing the epistolary as a form of elegy, Master Suffering investigates the labyrinthine dimensions of desire, mourning, faith, and misogyny. The nucleus of this searing treatise on bereavement and belief, is a younger sister’s death. “CM Burroughs’s Master Suffering is transcendent: revealing anguish, vulnerability, and a guttural beauty.
“ In Burroughs’s brilliant second collection… there isn’t a single poem that misses, which makes it all the more devastating to get through each of these 36 impeccable lyrics.”
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It's amazing." Tim wraps up, touching base on his initial epiphany as a musician: "Once I heard punk rock, it made me really want to learn how to play the guitar. I mean, we take care of our stuff, but even if it's small stuff like clip straps rubbing the paint off the guitar, I want to use guitars I can put stickers on and scratch up and not really care." On EverTune: "It's voodoo technology. When asked about his live rig, Zach adds: "I play these Les Pauls because I play really hard and they can take a beating. Yes, it is a nerdy musician thing, but it helps us deliver the best performance we can in the studio and live."
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As professional musicians, they just want stuff to work." Says Tim: "Evertune keeps our guitars in tune, which frees a lot of time to be more creative and worry less about the technical aspects. While chatting about Rise Against, he says "Tim and Zach are both really easy going, down to earth and enthusiastic people. Above, LPs in Fren's workshop prior to last year's tour. Wolves was recorded in 2017 with Nick Raskulinecz, who some of you might recall worked with EverTune users Munky and Head from Korn on their "The Serenity of Suffering" album.Ĭertified EverTune installer Fren at Asken Guitars has been installing their bridges since 'Day One'. With a career spanning two decades, Rise Against have released nine albums.Īs early EverTune adopters, Tim and Zach have been recording and touring with their EverTune'd Gibsons since 2014's The Black Market with producer Bill Stevenson.
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