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Burn After Reading

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Pub Date 25 Feb 2025 | Archive Date 15 Apr 2025


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Description

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.

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...


Advance Praise

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"Henriquez's poetry-a blend of playfully blunt and lyrically profound verses-encircles suffering and renewal with an unyielding resilience. This collection shuns poetic cynicism, instead capturing the beauty and grace that emerge from life's harshest realities."

-Book Life Review, Editor's Pick



"This poetry collection is accessible and relatable...Henriquez soars when writing about tougher topics."

Kirkus Reviews


"Part scorched earth, part warm embrace, Burn After Reading is powerful, devastating and utterly healing."

-Lyndsay Rush, author of A Bit Much


"Burn After Reading is an offering-- a gifted seat at the table for the yearners, for the lovers, and for those finding their footing amidst it all."

-Joél Leon, author of Everything and Nothing at Once


"Jessica Ciencin Henriquez has created poetry that feels like prayer, and sentences that read like incantations. This book goes down as easily as water but burns like fire. You will be transported, transfixed, and transformed."

-Reema Zaman, author of I Am Yours 


"Burn After Reading reveals Jessica Ciencin Henriquez's soul laid bare. This poetry collection features grief, loss, pain, change, transformation, and bearing witness to the beauty of life and an uncontainable love for life itself. All in an original, cohesive, playful format which leaves every page a gift for the reader to discover."

-Amara Rethwisch., Netgalley Reviewer


"This poetry collection is heartfelt and willowy. It resonates with the soul of the reader."

-Samantha Reynolds., Librarian


"Burn After Reading captures love in all its forms-raw, imperfect, and enduring. It's ugly love that returns softer, stronger."

-Claudia Sewald, Journalist

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"Henriquez's poetry-a blend of playfully blunt and lyrically profound verses-encircles suffering and renewal with an unyielding resilience. This collection shuns poetic cynicism, instead...


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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Distribution:

Available for order through Ingram and also through direct distribution from Rev Publishing.

For direct orders or bulk inquiries contact: sales@rev-publishing.com

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

For press inquiries, interviews, or to request additional copies, contact:

Elizabeth Ordoñez, Director of Marketing

Phone: (310) 759-8175

Email: marketing@rev-publishing.com

Website: www.rev-publishing.com

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...


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EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9798991579490
PRICE 27.99
PAGES 152

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