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[Matte] Paperback Book
This 9×6 matte paperback includes 150 ivory pages of poetry & interwoven design, making it a tactile collectible for poetry lovers. The glowing cover is from Joseph Tomanek’s Nymph’s Dancing to Pan’s Flute (1920), echoing the impassioned flame & trance-like poetry.
*All pre-orders placed from June to August will arrive as a special bundled package: the book wrapped in black kraft paper with red chiffon ribbon, paired with a Red beeswax taper candle & a Frankincense incense stick, inspired by the book’s atmosphere. Add the corresponding poetic ritual candle to your order to complete the immersive reading ritual.
“Sacramental Pyre” Soy Wax Candle by Marvel + Moon
Comes in a 3 oz. black tin.
Inspired by Break Blow Burn, this candle evokes the sacred & the transgressive alike. Notes of Charcoal, Saffron, Rose, Cedarwood, & Tonka Bean smolder beneath adornments of Frankincense tears & Patchouli root, conjuring forgotten saints, hidden histories, ecstatic revelation, & the liminal spaces where desire, sanctity, & selfhood intertwine. A fragrance for seekers, mystics, & those who walk beyond prescribed boundaries.
Scent Notes: Charcoal, Tonka Bean, Saffron, Cedarwood, Rose
Adorned with Patchouli Root & Frankincense Tears.
QUOTES ABOUT THE BOOK:
The poems of Break Blow Burn luxuriate in gorgeously wrought images and a robust, complex music. Resisting a straight narrative thru-line, the collection nonetheless tells a story with its examination of female saints and other progenitors of feminine lore by a 21st-century descendent. In this lyric retelling, Fox Henry Frazier holds the strictures of Western society and its religions accountable for centuries of aggression and terror directed at women, an aggression and terror that has not ceased—but together the poems also sing, pray, praise, and pledge: ‘The song is not forgiveness / but record. // Those for whom it is meant/ will listen / without / end.’ Whether you believe in the divinity of these sainted, magical women, or simply revere their strength and resilience, Break Blow Burn reminds us that the most miraculous act is to value your voice, your personhood, and your humanity when the coldly domineering and impervious world of men does not.
—Sarah Kain Gutowski, author of The Familiar
‘In the beginning there was a small bird / and the bird was with me // because the bird was me.’ So speaks St. Pelagia in Fox Henry Frazier’s collection Break Blow Burn where each poem is titled with a historical fragment before we enter its lyrical power. Against the barest of biographical details, Break Blow Burn gives form to the complexity, intelligence, and earthly desires of women saints. ‘Thick as a secret gold/ key carried on my tongue,’ these radiant poems ripple with color and texture as Frazier brings these women back to earth and reminds us that the violence done to women for centuries only strengthens their intuitive wisdom. In iconic figures like pregnant Pope Joan and St. Brigid, we remember that women’s struggle for autonomy is an ancient one. But the poems do not remain in the past: Deora Dé, a contemporary figure, moves among this collection too, lest we forget that these stories of faith and violence are not over yet.
—Jessica Cuello, author of Feral
In Break Blow Burn, Frazier brings to life exceptional women d’antan with uncanny and riveting ability—from Pope Joan to Mélusine, from Joan of Arc to Héloïse d’Argenteuil. This tripartite collection explores the visceral power of language in the tradition of masters like John Donne and Gerard Manley Hopkins but with a unique, erudite, female twist. Expect to succumb to its sensory and sensual overload. An astounding read that has charmed me over and over again. Break Blow Burn is simply brave, bold & bright.
—Alessandra Bava, co-author of the novel Il rione degli arcani, translator of Diane Seuss's four-legged girl and frank: sonnets
Fox Henry Frazier takes her title from Donne in her stunning and ambitious collection, Break Blow Burn. In imagining the lives of women saints, many who defied conventions of the time including blurring or switching genders, she delineates for us how little has changed in safety, equality, and freedom for women over the centuries. Towards the end of the collection she writes, ‘Listen: they burn her alive in every version of the story. / She is witch in every story and there is no / version in which they do not burn her alive.’ This book is painfully relevant in 21st century America, where the historical atrocities enacted on women's bodies are being replicated in different but equally chilling ways.
—Jennifer Franklin, author of A Fire in Her Brain (Princeton University Press, 2026)