Burning of the Three Fires shows Jeanne Marie Beaumont usingher characteristic variety of techniques: dramatic monologues, lists, prosepoems, object poems, and ekphrasis, to which she adds biography, elegy, andrites. This book takes a multifaceted look at womanhood: there are dolls,historic and modern girlhoods, mythic retellings of characters from Goldilocksto the Bride of Frankenstein, emotionally charged domestic trinkets, and even aconversation with Sylvia Plath conducted via a Magic 8- Ball.JeanneMarie Beaumont is the author of Curious Conduct (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2004) andthe National Poetry Series–winning book Placebo Effects. She lives inNew York City.