# Why Things Burn

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- Book: [Why Things Burn](https://www.bookquiver.com/daphne-gottlieb/why-things-burn) ([Why Things Burn.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/daphne-gottlieb/why-things-burn.md))
- Authors: [Daphne Gottlieb](https://www.bookquiver.com/daphne-gottlieb)
- Publisher: soft_skull
- ISBN: 978-18-8712-865-0
- Pages: 136
- Published: 2001-06-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This Lambda Literary Award nominee is a book of fierce, original poetry by one of San Francisco's leading poets and performers. Educated without being didactic, lyrical without being doggerel, passionate...